#paldea elite four

[effiesketch]

After work drinks

#pokemon sv #paldea elite four #elite four rika #elite four larry #elite four poppy #elite four hassel #treasure eatery #pokemon sv spoilers #pokemon #fanart

[pokemon-my-beloved]

challenge the paldea elite four!

you will fight:

butch lesbian

four year old girl

just some guy

gay old man

#i love them your honor #pokemon #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #pokemon scarlet violet #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarvi #pokemon sv #pokemon gen 9 #paldea elite four #rika #rika pokemon #poppy #poppy pokemon #larry #larry pokemon #hassel #hassel pokemon #pokemon sv spoilers #probably #gotta queue em all #og post #paldea

[rikaspotting]

Thank you Santa

#rika pokemon #Christmas present I guess #paldean winds #paldea #pokemon anime #paldea elite four #geeta pokemon #poppy pokemon

[pr1nce-jubiii]

#fanart #pokemon scarlet and violet #pkmn #pokemon #pkmn rika #paldea elite four

[sunnixsunshine]

Uh yes, totally normal art of totally normal people, yes indeed, theres no weird background not pertaining to the art whatsoever

#i just wanted an excuse to make more ‘stickers’ and use em lol #pokemon #pokemon fanart #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarvi #pokemon sv #paldea elite four #pokemon elite four #elite four rika #elite four larry #gym leader larry #elite four poppy #elite four hassel #champion geeta

[laconicaddict]

rika can't take a joke, but poppy sure can dish one

#pokemon scarlet and violet #rika pokemon #poppy pokemon #pokemon #paldea elite four

[seakingsux]

#gym leader larry #paldea #paldea elite four

[shinyhappydigistar]

And here they are! My rock band AU Elite Four with their respective instruments! Meet the members of The Reversed Scale!

Yes, the instruments were traced from actual photographs and screenshots, but I just really, really, really wanted to visualize it both for myself and for you guys. (wink nudge)

tbh Poppy's an...interesting case, as I'm not 100% sure how tall she is, so it's possible she could honestly have a mini-sized guitar or a guitalele. Pokémon sizing is wonky.

#my art #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #paldea elite four #band au #elite four rika #elite four poppy #elite four larry #elite four hassel #psychedelic rock #progressive rock #bubblegum rock #musical instruments #also I translated the logos to galarian alphabet #because anal-retentive #pokemon hassel #pokemon larry #pokemon poppy #pokemon rika

[almostdailypokemon]

Elite maushold 4

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#elite four #paldea elite four #elite four rika #elite four hassel #elite four larry #elite four poppy #elite 4 rika #elite 4 hassel #elite 4 larry #elite 4 poppy #rika pokemon #hassel pokemon #larry pokemon #poppy pokemon #maushold

[false-savior]

idk other ideas for sv pokemon turned human aus

inspired by the one and only kieranpon au

-koraidon/miraidon Juliana/Florian

-glimmora geeta (based on the theories)

-liko terapagos

-treasures of ruin Paldea elite 4

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #koraidon #miraidon #juliana pokemon #florian pokemon #geeta pokemon #liko pokemon #treasures of ruin #paldea elite four #kieranpon au #<- mention

[celestialholz]

Treasures, Ruined (or 'Are the Elite Four the Treasures of Ruin?')

My fellow thought-experimentee @serene-hatterene mentioned a little while ago that the Treasures of Ruin bear a passing resemblance to our Paldean Elite Four, and I agree... though I don't think it means a heel turn is coming. None of them are evil - there's been literally zero foreshadowing of any form, and I personally refuse to believe that there is a single shred of evil in Hassel specifically. This man is sunshine incarnate - he even goddamn looks like the sun, and is painted as such in Surrendering Sunflora.

No, no evil here. But I'll tell you what I do think.

The Treasures of Ruin are the Elite Four if they were to go down a very different and much darker path, hence the Dark typing.

That's a fun statement, isn't it? Allow me to explain...

We will start in dex order, with Wo-Chien, our Hassel counterpart.

This is most of Wo-Chien's lore.

Now, there are multiple things of note here:

Tablets were classically used pre-paper manufacturing to write or draw things upon - like a musician might wish to do, or an artist;

Hassel comes from a noble family, who don't agree with his life choices - whilst he doesn't seem to bear grudges in his present state of mind, it isn't a stretch at all to imagine that he could were his mind dark enough;

Plants. Wo-Chien drains plant life, and holds control over it.

... Now, imagine if you will a moment, a darker timeline: a timeline where, embittered by his family's treatment and his own musical failure, Hassel finds Brassius, and instead of healing and supporting and encouraging him as he does in our canon, leading them to a beautiful and loving companionship, he instead does the opposite: takes out his spite and his anger, leads Brassius instead to ruin and to the death he saved him from in another life.

... No, you're crying. (/j, I am also weeping, god I hate noticing things sometimes. IT'S OKAY GUYS THEY'RE HAPPY AND LOVED AND ALIVE IN OUR WORLD *ugly sobbing*)

This idea is backed up further by the fact that Wo-Chien's shrine must be opened via purple stakes - Poison, seeping into the Grass.

Oh, and as Bulbapedia points out:

... Huh. Imagine that, the emotional guy darkened due to his own feelings - or, indeed, that of our favourite Grass gym leader...

And then there's the fact that Hass' lead Pokemon Noivern nearly always starts battle by halving your HP with Super Fang... which has exactly the same effect as Ruination, the Treasures' signature move.

Anyway, let's move on, before I sob myself to sleep...

We arrive next at Chien-Pao, or our Larry counterpart.

Lore incoming...

Whilst Wo-Chien is represented by grudges, Chien-Pao is represented by hatred - and we know Larry a. hates his boss, b. hates his three jobs, and c. probably hates his life, as tired and done as he seems to be.

And so, imagine a world where that hatred, rather than be channeled into exhaustion and exasperation, becomes instead active - becomes instead a very powerful man who can apparently master types on a whim tearing down all before him, telling the world that's kept him down to bow before him. He becomes the boss; he becomes the hatred of those 'slain' by the corporate structure, and he simply sits there and watches the chaos.

Now, lovely little tired sweetheart Larry would rather eat onigiri, tell you you're very good at battling and go to sleep... but then, Hass would never drain Brassius either. It's all in the possibility, the alternate universe.

Interesting supplementary points here include:

Staraptor has the same base attack as Chien-Pao... who, like the rest of the Treasures, was patch-nerfed. It did have 130 atk, ten points higher than Staraptor;

It's represented by orange stakes, the colour of the Fighting type - Larry's one major weakness on his gym team, which later he adopts Flying types for and becomes strong against;

This man is a facade. He gives you the TM for it, he lives the gimmick... and when one tears down a facade, the person beneath is revealed. Not that I'm saying the person beneath wants to watch the world burn, but... not too tricky to imagine someone snapping under Larry's level of pressure, is it?

What's mightier than the sword, so the saying goes? The pen. You know, those things people use a lot in an office...

God, let's see if Rika can cheer us up a bit, although I doubt it given the topic... we move, then, to Ting-Lu.

The lore has this to say on the subject of Ting-Lu:

Ting-Lu represents fear: and if any of you have also sat there like me in fear for your champion prospects (and possibly life) as Rika stares you down during the interview process, I think we know why.

Fear... and control over the earth. The translation is a little more literal here, given that they share their specialist types.

Our Rika is fun and laid-back, but in another world, well... imagine a woman motivated by the fear of those before her, intimidating all who stand before her in both words and in battle, swallowing her enemies with the power of the earth. As a fun counterpoint, the Rika we know and love even says that you shouldn't find her worrying when you meet her during your gym challenge:

Couple of additional things:

Ting-Lu's stakes are green - Grass, life, swallowed whole by the ground;

Rika's rocking the classically evil red eyes;

Most of her Pokemon have the capacity to learn Fissure, which is referenced in Ting-Lu's bio.

We know comparatively little about Rika compared to Hassel or Larry, but the type-share kinda says it all here.

And finally, we reach everyone's favourite overachieving tiny sister, Poppy.

Here's some lore for y'all:

Now again, in comparison to Hassel and Larry, we know next to nothing about Poppy, but envy specifically is interesting. The kid is very clearly far too powerful for her age, and it's therefore quite simple to imagine envy-based corruption occurring - of her dominating her peers, of her envy that everyone else seems to fit in where she doesn't. Thankfully in the Elite Four she's amongst friends, but... the composition of this team, jesus. Take a look:

Kid is made of nuclear weapons, my god. The young mind is impressionable, easy to lead astray... except she's all fine and adorable, because she has structure, and an outlet for her power. Without that... well, Chi-Yu's on fire, so... I think this about sums it up.

Little bit more on the intrigue:

Mmm. Lighter. Well yeah, she would be...

There's a saying in gemology, or the sculpting of gems, about jade - what Chi-Yu's bead eyes are made of. And it goes like this:

... Like a bell? Like that one she has on her team?

Chi-Yu is represented by blue stakes, or the Water type; the tears of a lost little girl, her fieriness extinguished.

So, now we've analysed the similarities of the characters, let's take a look at the story of the Treasures.

'The king's greed', huh...

... Huh. Geeta, who owns a Kingambit, who is the Top Champion. Now, aside from Larry, who seems to just straight-up dislike her, we don't know how the other three feel about their 'king' here - but we do know from the gym leader rematches that multiple of those guys aren't fans of her hardline stance. She and Tulip style-clash, Katy resents her for having her go easy on challengers, and Grusha seems afraid of her power to oust him. She seems to be a divisive woman, and... well, it's irrelevant, because we're here to imagine an alternate universe, friends. In another life, Geeta greedily overworks her people, taking the desire she has to host the greatest League and turning it dark; in another life, grudges, hates, fears and envies lead to a world of destruction and rebellion instead of a united found family. What is a king there is a queen here, and what would our queen be able to do, if she was attacked by all four of her treasures at once? Very little.

Four treasures, one king, two worlds. We even have the people to 'seal them away' - us, Nemona, Penny, Arven, and all the rematch gym leaders, who at that point outlevel the Elite Four. After all, if the shoe fits... two of us have already have taken down all four of them.

Let's all be glad we live in the good timeline, folks, where our Elite Four are loved and wholesome.

... It's fascinating isn't it, that we've pulled up these stakes up, crumbled them to dust... released the Poison, the Fighting, the Grass, the Water... that we've all seeped toxicity into the earth, lost the fight, had the life sucked away, and doused youthful enthusiasm.

... Nah, can't mean anything. Can't mean anything that we're the wielders who have already defeated them. Can't mean anything that Geeta's name in Japanese is 'omodaka', which directly translates to 'heightened surface', like the high places you nearly always find these stakes on.

... Nah, guys. Just a coincidence. They're all perfectly lovely... in our world. Still, quite the AU, right? ;)

#paldea elite four #elite four larry #elite four hassel #elite four poppy #elite four rika #oh and look at that! #ephemeralartshipping! #in my completely NOT ephemeralartshipping meta! #I'm astonished guys don't know about you #treasures of ruin #pokemon scarlet and violet #meta #top champion geeta

[paldea-elite-four-quotes]

Hassel: I want everyone to know that Rika keeps looking up pictures of wishiwashi on her phone and showing them to me.

Poppy: She was already doing that, she’s been doing that all day.

Larry: That’s all you do!

Hassel: She’s scrolling, she’ll find one and just hold up the phone to me with a big smile.

Rika: *giggling*

#source: drawfee #paldea elite four #pokemon sv #rika pokemon #poppy pokemon #larry pokemon #hassel pokemon

[rikaspotting]

Poppy eating a Happy Meal

Hassel: Poppy, don't you think it's time to start eating big girl meals? After all, you are a blossoming mature-

Rika walks in

Rika: excitedly holding a Happy Meal You got a Happy Meal, too?!

Poppy: Yeah!

Rika: Heck yeah! What toy did ja get?

Hassel: Oh, Arceus, help us...

#rika pokemon #poppy pokemon #hassel pokemon #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon characters #paldea elite four #pokemon incorrect quotes

[satan-is-a-furry]

me: I love the Paldean Elite 4

the Paldean Elite 4: nonbinary lesbian, child, business man, old gay guy

#shut up axel #pokemon scarlet and violet #paldea elite four #rika pokemon #poppy pokemon #larry pokemon #hassel pokemon

[octopeachy]

blaze and cream as rika and poppy

#blaze the cat #cream the rabbit #elite four rika #elite four poppy #pokemon #sonic #sonic the hedgehog #pokemon scarlet violet #pokemon scavio #paldea elite four #rika (pokemon) #poppy (pokemon) #sketch #fanart #outfit swap #pokemon sv

[sittingoverheredreaming]

My head canon for why Poppy is such a young child in the elite four is that a while back Larry found an abandoned baby outside the Pokémon league and made the mistake of bringing it inside before contacting the authorities

Larry: The Pokémon Center was right there why would they leave it here? *Deep sigh* I hope the boss isn’t adding this to our responsibilities

Rika, mostly joking : We’re going to keep it, right?

Hassel, already crying: YES HER NAME IS POPPY NOW SHE IS OUR BABY

And then they just collectively raised her and taught her to be a strong trainer from the get go, so she became a member of the Elite Four as soon as she could manage to throw a Pokéball

#Pokémon #pokémon scarlet and violet #pokémon scarvio #elite four poppy #paldea elite four #I love the idea that the elite four members didn’t even live in the same places but then just. comitted. #Larry is the most hands off but he definitely is the one scheduling a check ups and budgeting and everything