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ausilotus-pokemon · 1 year

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8: Wartortle

Type: Water

Ability: Torrent (HA: Rain Dish)

Wartortles stalk their prey in the water. This pokémon is a fast swimmer, moving its ears to balance itself. If a wartortle has scratches on its shell, it shows its foes that it’s a tough opponent. The more scratches in the shell, the more intimidating it is to an enemy. Though, it’s easy to startle. When unexpectedly tapped on the head, it quickly withdraws into its shell, its tail being too long to be withdrawn completely. A wartortles’ tail is covered in rich fur and people see it as a symbol of longevity. They are said to be able to live for 1,000 years. The older it becomes, the darker the tail is and the more algae grows on its shell. They’re common pets, popular amongst the elderly.

#8 #wartortle #water types #mono water types #middle stage evolutions #draw every pokémon challenge #pokémon fanart

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voreoborous · 6 months

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Doing some silly kobold/dragon world building based on sequential hermaphroditism, except instead of sex it's just how dragony you are, except that's also kind of a gender :)

Draconids in the middle of their transformations are basically undergoing a second puberty (the first being when their kobold state sexually matures, about the same time human kids go through puberty), and have a lot of puberty associated symptoms, such as voracious hunger, skin/scale problems, growing pains, and bouts of really intense horniness. It's advised that draconids going through their dragon-puberty sleep lots, eat lots, and get plenty of exercise.

Some draconids don't want their bodies to change so dramatically, so medical solutions have been devised to halt the transformation. After a few months of HRT, the initial wave of hormones will wear off and the kobold stays a kobold.

Also, it doesn't just get triggered by break-ups. Death, taking a vacation away from a partner for a couple weeks, a new relationship, or sometimes even other transformations in their social circles have all been known to trigger dragonification, if a precise cause is ever found at all. On top of that, some draconids skip the adult kobold stage entirely and morph straight into dragons, but this is pretty rare. Hormone therapy can also be used in these cases if they decide they want to become kobolds instead.

There's also treatments to go from dragon back to kobold. This is much harder on the body than the other way around, but determined draconids can make it work.

(The actual sexes of the dragons and kobolds are usually irrelevant.)

While this relationship is the "normal"/socially enforced way to go about things, plenty of different arrangements exist, each with varying levels of acceptability. For example, a single kobold with a single dragon is not the ideal, but acceptable (if they're looking for more - if they're happy as-is, it's considered strange), whereas two (or more) dragons with no kobold partners are much more maligned. I usually don't enjoy writing fantasy homophobia though so idk how much I'll flesh that out, I'm just rotating hot scalies

#my art #my ocs #this isnt even my kink #i dont go to tf university #this is more about the polyamory dynamics but i got sidetracked thinking really hard about how a dragon/kobold binary could happen #oh that also inspired me. if you bounce on and off hormones you can stay in the middle stages as neither kobold nore dragon if you want #wbing like this is a double-edged sword 4 me because coming up with biological/ecological explanations for random kinky things i like #is genuinely. very fun #but i don't really sexualize the explanations themselves if that makes sense. i don't have a biology textbook kink #i just . enjoy writing speculative evolution in fantasy .

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smilepebble · 11 months

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i understand that its probably easier to 3d animate an animal walking instead of hopping (i.e. having a bird walk instead of hop) but we lost something so important in 3d pmd when they took away grovyle's little hops

#like his old 2d walking animation was him hopping from space to space... the 3d one just looks really awkward #and not in the ''middle stage starter evolution'' way #op #pmd #explorers #i love you 3d pmd. but you missed with this one

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mobileleprechaun · 1 year

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Jrell circa the 1970s or so as his pollution-induced acromegaly begins to make his bones go from human mode to orca mode way too fast and way too early.

#my art #my oc #jrell #if the middle stage of pokemon evolution was hideously painful and potentially lethal #twink death is terrifying

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killscreen65535 · 9 months

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Honestly I got no respect for people who don't have room in their heart for both Sliggoo and Goodra. Why must they fight? Why can't we love both??? Why can't we appreciate the Pokemon families where every stage has a distinct personality and execution. Who the fuck is out here saying they prefer lines that are just a linear point A to point B progression. Same for Dragonair vs Dragonite Grovyle vs Sceptile Dusclops vs Dusknoir honestly y'all are just mega haters on middle stages without realizing it. Fanart that reinterprets Goodra as just Sliggoo But Longer And Bigger makes my eyes roll like a hampter wheel because I Cannot stand Pokemon lines where it's just the same guy getting bigger twice a la Pidgey or Vanillite.

#ks talks #pokemon #this is soooo not related to anything I just get these periods where I wax poetic about middle stages #and I really don't don't like it where people are like “man I don't like what this pokemon evolves into”#and that's fine and valid #but then their reinterpretation is “okay what if it was just the same pokemon but bigger and cooler :)”#like ummm no I would rather have an uglier worse evolution that has a distinct personality and appeals to more people #than The Same Guy But Again #like I gotta respect the magmortar fans out there even though I think it's a crapass design compared to magmar #and I'd rather have magmortar than Magmar But He Is Taller And A Dragon Type And Has Spikes #not to extend this insane tangent even further but I think this is why I don't really like annihilape despite lovvving primeape #because it's kinda just primeape but a ghost type? like whatever

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spaceoutdreamer · 1 year

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"If you don't have your starter in your team I don't trust you" fair and valid but my guy, between Furry #413, a Brazilian Gay Man, and Monster Flame Crocodile, it's getting harder to defend that statement

#story time #Pokémon #What the fuck are those final evolutions #The fire one is okish #But that middle stage SUCKS #And YES I took the furry #It's a cat and I called it Guizmo leave me alonre #I didn't vibe with the fire starter

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ausilotus-pokemon · 2 years

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#5: Charmeleon

Type: Fire

Ability: Blaze (HA: Solar Power)

A charmeleon is very hot-headed by nature and constantly seeks opponents. These pokémon tend to be very vicious and attack with sharp claws. The stronger its opponent is, the more aggressive the charmeleon gets. It won’t stop until the enemy is defeated, and will only calm down once it wins. Tough fights excite this pokémon. When excited, its fire becomes bluish-white. If it swings its burning tail, the surrounding temperature rises to uncomfortable levels. It tends to lash its tail to knock down its foe. If agitated, it spouts intense flames, incinerating its surroundings. The flames on their tails, while dangerous, beautifully shine like stars at night.

#5 #charmeleon #fire types #mono fire types #middle stage evolutions #draw every pokémon challenge #pokémon fanart

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givemeuniversalcrossovers · 2 years

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Probably a horrendous idea but it'd be very cool if in some future Pokemon game because of lore differences between the two versions of the same region we had game specific final starter evos. It'd probably go horribly and people would probably hate it but I think it'd be cool plus the awkward middle teen evos would really be vibing with that identity crisis having multiple underdeveloped themes concepts and traits that aren't fully realised not knowing what they really want to be really existing as awkward puberty children until finally evolving into whichever version said game has as if they've finally realised who they want to be taking the traits they liked and they wanted to keep and growing them leaving the awkward teething concepts they played with behind.

#My thoughts #My rambles #Pokemon thoughts #Pokemon starter evolutions #Like they already do ooh you can only catch some Pokemon in this game #One of these days they'll pull the ooh you can only get this final starter #And strategically mix you'd need both games to get all the statistically more preferred final evos #Kinda like mega charizard x vs y and mega mewtwo x vs y #Jokes on them I grew to love charizard y design and already preferred mewtwo y so absolute win #Plus I wanna see really really awkward middle stages that are really having that before adulthood crisis #Balancing two themes #Maybe between traditional evolution and expectations of what they're meant to be and like idk branching off from that or evolving #Like maybe one version tradition is law but the other tradition is failing the people and Pokemon as the world is changing so they must too #Creating new traditions idk

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pokemonheritageposts · 1 year

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tryna see something. tag this with a pokemon whose middle evolution stage is your favourite

(excluding pokemon that became middle stages retroactively like pikachu or bisharp)

#mine is dewott

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mossdeep · 2 years

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god looking at pics of myself from like 5+ years ago.... i was a skinny little twink huh

#i'm in the middle stage of my evolution to bear #i just need to go back on t so i can have more body hair

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becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys · 2 months

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routine vibe check: what’s the best starter pokemon and why are you right (pictures and long paragraphs of evidence welcomed and appreciated)

Gonna get a good grade in vibe check, normal to want and inevitable to achieve because I have objectively correct Pokemon opinions and will block naysayers

OKAY LET'S GO

I decided to do, like, a top 5 list or something, because I'm bad at picking a single favourite of stuff. And then even that overwhelmed me, so I found one of those tier ranking list sites and produced this:

It was done in less than a minute, so if I wanted to get really picky, I don't know if I would be fully wedded to it (not sure if maybe Sceptile should be one higher) BUT it did help to highlight the important ones.

So!

5. Bulbasaur

It's. Just. So. Nice.

Like you can find cooler, more beautiful, cuter, fancier... there's a whole bunch of ways for a Pokemon to be great. But you will never ever find a nicer Pokemon than Bulbasaur. It's so lovely. Look at it. Look at its face.

I can't put it higher, because the rest of the line is fairly bland in terms of development. It's good and logical and fun, don't get me wrong, but Ivysaur and Venusaur just look like bigger versions with More Flower and Less Cute rather than creatures in their own right. To be honest, if it weren't a starter requiring a three-stage evolution, you could do away with Ivysaur. Something I don't like about a lot of lazy three-step lines is that the middle step just looks like a transitional mid phase rather than a Proper Creacher, like they were artificially inflating the Pokemon number count. Meanwhile it took us until Paldea to get a Girafarig evo that would actually make the giraffe tall. Madness.

However my first ever Pokemon was a Bulbasaur I called Daffodil, and I have traded him forward onto every single successive generation since. He is, quite literally, my First Ever Pokemon. I love him desperately. I still have him. Not many people still have their First Ever Pokemon. But I do and I love him. So, Bulbasaur gets the fifth spot.

4. Snivy

Again, a victim of the Banal Transitional Middle Evo, but both Snivy and Serperior are incredible, and as Meatloaf took such pains to tell us, two out of three ain't bad.

But Snivy! It's so snooty! I was super lucky with mine, too, because I beat the 12.8% odds and got a female, and I loved her. Normally the initial baby starters are designed to be cute but Snivy has SO MUCH PERSONALITY, she's great. And the design of Serperior is utterly gorgeous. She keeps the expression, but rather than the Animal Crossing-style snooty-cute vibe of Snivy you get this thousand yard withering stare of an empress whose servant (you) has just turned up dripping mud in her throne room and asked her for money. Her green and gold colour scheme is exquisite. Her filigree design, including her high collar, give off the air of wealth and sophistication befitting her immaculate pedigree. And all this! In a simple snake. Incredible design work, 10 out of 10, no notes.

Begone, you miserable peasant. Have him boiled.

3. Torchic

Now I'll be real with you, lads, but Pokemon design hit its stride with Hoenn and then got better.

It's partly a fashion thing, of course - you look at some of the Kanto designs and they are remarkably 90s, because that's when the franchise launched. Others are clearly a product of what the 1990's were capable of producing in pixels on an already over-stretched cartridge medium. Like we like to clown on Red and Green/Blue now, but my god, those game designers performed a miracle with Pokemon. Every single square inch of space was used to make that game, and complex designs weren't going to cut it.

(With that said, there is still no excuse for Dragonite.)

And then Johto came about and its Pokedex sucks ass. It's mostly new evolutions for existing Kanto stars, useless babies to inflate the dex number, or poorly thought out single-evos like the inexplicably short Girafarig and the unacceptably dreary Dunsparce (our greatest thanks to Paldea for fixing both of those).

BUT THEN CAME HOENN (trumpets intensify)

And we get habitats! Biomes! A different regional climate, gifting us a brand new area of Pokecology! And therefore a brand new flush of creativity in Pokemon design across the board; less dated, and more inclined to be unique rather than a rehash of Kantonian stuff.

Which brings me nicely to this lad:

Now, I mean. Just look at him. Fucking hell. Cute starter stage, check. LOOK AT HIM FACE

AND THEN he became, at the time, a brand-new unique typing: Fire/Fighting. I realise that is now the norm for like, half of the Fire starters, but that's because of Torchic, actually. He was super popular. In fact if you ever play Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald and you do what my husband and I like to call a Mynci Dave run (use one Pokemon almost exclusively, meaning it gets all the experience points and therefore over-levels to a terrifying degree, allowing you to sweep the game; so named after the noble Primeape we first did this with, Mynci Dave), Torchic is the PERFECT Pokemon to choose, because almost everything is weak to either Fire or Fighting in that region.

Anyway, Combusken is, again, kind of mid (although props for the inverted colour scheme and the fact that it actually does look like a teenager.) But Blaziken, on the other hand... Blaziken is a six foot ninja chicken with wings for hair whose Pokedex entry describes it as able to leap tall peaks in a single bound, a feat it achieves after strengthening its legs by hoofing Geodudes down mountains like they're fucking footballs

Also an impressive bulge.

My first was called Gilgamesh, and he was fucking great. For a long time, this mad lad was my actual favourite Pokemon, not just starter. Brilliant. Love him. Five stars out of three. King.

2. Fuecoco

It would probably surprise you to know I've not actually used one. I chose Sprigatito, and I do really like Meowscarada, actually. But pretty anthro cat boys have been done in Pokemon quite a bit at this point; cats, dogs and rabbits are over-represented in terms of Poke-taxa. Possibly this is another reason for a toad, a snake and a chicken being 5, 4 and 3 so far (ooh, basilisk ingredients, I've just realised.) They're new and unusual! I like an Eeveelution as much as the next person, but they're a whole family of cat-dog-rabbits, like.

However.

Nintendo has tried its hand at Pokecrocodilians three times (Feraligatr, Krookodile, Skeledirge), and they have gotten so much better at design each time that the three of them are basically a scale proxy for ongoing design improvement. Look, I've made a diagram:

EXCEPT

(Strap in)

This one is that rare thing: a three step line that deserves to be a three step line. Let's talk Fuecoco first:

SO CUTE. It's charming, it's charismatic, it's adorable.

It also has hints of its evolutionary end goal, but not like an undeveloped middle evo. It likes singing. The white face hints at the eventual calavera, and it looks a bit like a lil chilli pepper - a ghost pepper, probably in reference to the eventual Fire/Ghost typing. But the colours and shape right now also look a bit reminiscent of a babygro, because this thing is a cute starter. Lookit them teefs. That tuft. Its lovely smile. Beautiful.

And then, at the point you expect it to turn into just the awkward teenage version of the adult, instead we get Crocator:

Oh boy. Oh there's so much to say. Okay okay:

The region it's from is based on Spain, but this thing is incorporating Hispanic elements from across the board. It's a mariachi in a sombrero, except the sombrero also looks kind of like a ring of Mexican marigolds and kind of like a Catalonian Easter cake called Mona de Pascua that has an egg (or egg-shaped confectionary) in the middle. Body shape and markings look kind of like a piñata. The white face is now on its way to a calavera, with the cheek and nostril markings more defined. And it sings, with its open mouth (also how crocodiles release heat, appropriate for a Fire type) and signified by the mariachi theme.

THAT IS A LOT.

And then it becomes Skeledirge. A Fire/Ghost crocodile.

Now the obvious design here is the calavera and the Día de Muertos theming, which is part of it. But there are also many examples of crocodile figures in Spanish folkloric ghost stories: the Catalonian Cocollona, the Lizard of Magdalena from Jaén, or the Drac de Na Coca, or even the Cuca - that one is Portuguese, but turns up in both Brasil and the Iberian Peninsula including in parts of Spain. It's got a Gaudi vibe (like Barcelona). It's got an alebrije vibe (like Mexico).

And the bird! Nile crocs have a cleaning symbiosis with Egyptian plovers; it also sits at the tip of the snout where male gharials have a sort of bulbous bit to help them make sounds (the singing thing).

But this is what the bird does when Skeledirge uses Torch Song:

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It becomes a microphone, then grows in size and attacks the opponent in Phoenix form. Phoenix: Fire/Ghost. Resurrected from the ashes.

Quite simply, your fave could never.

5. Rowlet

My god. (My god)

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Look at this lovely creacher. He is so round and so soft and so lovely. He looks like that baby Yoda meme. He looks like that cat that someone's landlord said they would make an exception for because he looks very polite. Look!!! At his lil bow tie!!! He is a smartly dressed young man and he is kind and he is... well, a bit vacant behind the eyes. A himbo, if you will. But he is all the better for that. What a lovely owl.

He looks a little like a barn owl, perhaps, and those were imported to Hawai'i, where Rowlet is from. But I think he looks a little like a Pueo owl, and given that he will eventually be a Ghost type, that seems right - pueos are one of the physical forms assumed by ʻaumākua in Hawai'ian culture, as I understand it.

And then, hang onto your tits, lads, because this is another banger - THE MIDDLE EVOLUTION IS ITS OWN DESIGN!!! (confetti cannons)

I said earlier that boring middle evos are like just awkward teenagers of the adults. Here, I present to you, a very deliberate Awkward Teenager, in Dartrix:

IT'S A DANDY

I love him I love him I love him

He plays with his fringe and if you touch it without permission he has a tantrum. God, he's so charismatic. Also, that fringe further suggests the pueo - they have pronounced outer rims around their facial disks like that. Look at his bow tie and tail coat. So smart and handsome

This one is so good that it could be the final evo. This is actually my issue with the Delphox line - Braixen is amazing, and then it becomes the bland boredom of Delphox. Braixen should have been the final stop. Here, Dartrix is much the same - good enough to be a high-quality end goal.

Where they differ is that Decidueye is better again.

IT SHOOTS ARROWS MADE OF ITS OWN QUILLS

Also, fun fact - This line is the only starter to change secondary typing. Dartrix is part Flying; but on evolving a second time into Decidueye, it switches to Grass/Ghost. In this evolution, it's definitely mostly a pueo, so the ʻaumākua reference is IN, but actually barn owls also have their associations with the dead in various cultures.

The crown of feathers around its head are also reminiscent of an ayaigasa - a hat worn by Japanese samurai archers. And yet! AND YET!

It still has its lil bow tie look. Bigger now, more of a cravat; but there it is.

A perfect Pokemon, and a perfect evolutionary line. No notes.

Anyway, thank you for this chance to waste three and a half hours writing this essay

#asks #pokemon #long post #gif

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