Happy Valentine’s Day! Have Some Keychain Designs I Made A While Ago And Some Gifs I Made Overnight

Week’s been a bit rough but thank goodness for me procrastinating on watching Atla for like 70 years this shit slaps. Anyways. Pretty straightforward post, I have brainworms and I made an AU :]

also made the other two elements w/ my takes on May and Brendan that I’ll yap about sooner or later…

-ghost

About 1-2 years ago I feel! The fun part is that I was listening to their USUM battle theme and went like “yeah man what *was* up with those old guys” went to tumblr. Liked some fanart. Looked at some posts. “Wait what do you mean the cards are real-“. Here I am now.

Something about dynamics, something about the “haha they’re kinda funny” to “shit I love the ship for real now” pipeline.

Yep! Both. Although I draw more than I write so the latter never gets to see the light of being publicized lol.

Overall, I prefer ORAS but I do also have an affinity for their RSE designs. They were onto something with Maxie’s OG coat I’m telling you, it just needs a few extra details (and glasses, they were a wonderful choice). Archie’s RSE design was much less characterized than the ORAS one, but I quite enjoy the darker colors and energy it gives off, but that could just be me enjoying the artstyle. ORAS is admittedly kind of goofy but that really adds the charm for me, also something something character design and how the newer ones very clearly show their personalities. OH not to mention the red-black/blue-white color choice which I noticed after reading a tumblr post. Absolutely insane. I am way too into this.

OH BOY! I Do have some. I can’t disclose certain interpretations because it is spoilers for my emerald comic but! I interpret that they met around the age of 16-17 (right before college) to have a few months of your typical Pokémon adventure, classic friendly rival dynamic (because I just enjoy the rivals to lovers progression). Sometime around working age (I’d say 25-30) they have the falling out (tm) due to very obvious difference in ideologies and goals and the like.

Usually around 37-45 in present day.

their ingame teams are fine, but I personally feel Archie should have a Walrein, Gyarados as a treat. (maybe even a Masquerain as a manga homage) and Maxie is a ground man. Give him a Flygon <- I say very biasedly. Other than that I have multiple team ideas but those mons are what I’d typically choose.

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If the Maxie’s Hidden Ball trick card counts then yeah. I have two keychain designs lying around and I REALLY need to print them out sometime.

Maxie, admittedly. I generally share more traits with him (the glasses it’s the fucking glasses guys oh my god) and that just kind of translates to me relating to the character more. Not saying I don’t relate to Archie because I enjoy traveling to the beach on holidays and the ocean is just awesome. Like you go king, go get more ocean!

side fucking note. I am an idiot. This was a followers thing. Haha lmao enjoy my rambles oops

I feel kinship towards the Hardenshipping community, we're all 20something year olds who love old men for some reason. So here's a little questionnaire about the ship :] feel free to reblog w your answers, use this as interaction and let your followers pick a number that u have to answer or whatnot!

1 . Since when do you like Hardenshipping?

2 . Why or How did you start liking the ship, if you remember?

3 . Have you ever drawn or written anything related to the ship?

4 . Do you prefer Maxie and Archie's old or new designs? Why?

5 . What do you think is their backstory? Do you have HCs on how they met/how their relationship used to be?

6 . What are your age HCs for Maxie and Archie?

7 . Build a team for either of them, or both; do you think the teams they have in-game fit them or not?

8 . Would you be in a relationship with either of them?

9 . Do you own any Hardenshipping merch or even just merch of either of the two?

10 . Who do you prefer? Maxie or Archie?

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hey... Um... Miitopia

U can tell how much this game has affected my artstyle for certain things :]

I'm playing as Maxie in the new run, mage is obviously fun with how much explosions you can cause (until you run out)

Maybe will post more, but I got stuff goin on and colored doodles are all I got for now. (Bonus goofy mii pictures under the cut)

-ghost

healing my dog with soda pops

Old Kris art for the occasion

i dont provide much contribution here nor good quality heres an OC post see you next year

-Condor

Archie and Maxie related headcanons I’ve had for a while

I have more than these that are closer to game info but unfortunately they are spoilers for my emerald comic. I want to ramble about them regardless so have like loose thoughts and stuff that’ll never get explored properly in said story lol. Some are hardenshipping and (very little tbh) team related stuff as well :)

Archie grew up somewhere near slateport, and spent a lot of time at sea with his adoptive father, Mr. Briney

Archie, Shelly, and Matt are basically siblings, they met as children and lived alongside/near each other up until they did their respective studies.

Maxie grew up and lived in Fallarbor town, his mother is a businesswoman that visits every month, while his father is a local street chef. He learnt how to cook some really good recipes but his cooking skills are limited to those dishes.

He was at one point Courtney's brother figure, he kind of still is but both are a little too caught up on work to properly hang out like they did.

Tabitha is the most emotionally intelligent of the magmas, he’s the HR guy with a psychology degree.

as much as he doesnt want to show or admit to it, Maxie has a mischievous streak. He's capable of making logically and morally questionable decisions (as seen in games). Most of the time he's prepared with an elaborate excuse, though.

Archie's cheerfulness is genuine, but he's got a lot of spite and real cold bitterness in that heart and if he feels like its necessary, he will let you know.

Archie has little spice tolerance, Maxie found out about this when he cooked for him at some point in the past

Archie and Maxie share an interest and taste in jazz, especially instrumental ones. Archie learned to piano at some point in his school life, and Maxie is decent at the violin

They met pre-college. That three-four month break before attending college was absolutely bonkers for them and you can say they had a pokemon adventure of their own

that point is when they grew their teams, became pretty damn good trainers, and became good friends.

They got together a few years into college

due to some unprecedented events a good 4-5 years into work (like age range wise about 27-28ish) and differing opinions on how to move forward from said events, they broke up. For the better, allegedly.

Maxie's love for ground types, similarly to Archie stems from loving his hometown and the place he grew up in. Yeah its dry and hot and somewhat unfriendly but it's familiar. Also Numels are just cute.

Archie can drive a boat, he's got a good intuition and can basically predict weather, mostly based on observations of how the wild pokemon are acting. He also has a pretty good grasp on memorizing places and usually can tell where they are in the ocean.

Archie has little to no memory of his biological family, but he eventually understands tgat he's most likely from pacifidlog, and that it doesn't really matter because he's got a perfectly good dad right there.

Archie and Maxie had to deal with long distance at some point, back when they didn't have advanced Pokenavs with good signal tech. Because they think it's kinda fun and sweet, Archie and Maxie communicated through letters. Peeko delivered them.

Maxie dresses masc in a way that he kind of only has two modes: Asian father and Business work man. He can have a sense of fashion but he barely explored that front and at present time prefers to be more practical.

Archie on the other hand is more creative and explores several styles. He sticks to blue most of the time, though.

Smth abt me and women

I know most people are in near-unanimous agreement that the ORAS character designs are way better than the original ones, and for the most part I agree, its really hard for me to shake off how much I enjoy Maxies original look. Where the ORAS outfits lean more fun and cartoony, the original RSE outfits are perfectly understated... theyre simple but striking (The original team Magma grunt uniforms are the one thing i still completely prefer from the original games. The baggy hoodies and pants are so delicilously y2k...) They feel a little more grounded and believable, for whatever thats worth in a fantasy world of magical animals lol. Undeniably the glasses were the correct choice, though.

everyday my brain jsut goes… DRAW OLD WOMEN YURI and one day I will bend to my own will… just when is that tho… I’m waiting (- ghost)