Lovely Boyfriend Appreciation Because This Boy Makes Me Go Mental In The Most Positive Way

How about Father's day

Happy Mother's day to all the mothers out there, and me also

Mermaid cat that's all I say

Miniature Fridolin lore bit that I think I never mentioned ??

He's german ... or from ( insert some not canonically existent germany inspired region here ) . He was born in Unova tho so..

He makes use of the language barrier this gives him with most people he meets .

He's " german " from his mother's side of the family . Which technically also means I have to headcanon Bronius as " german " so that's a thing now ..

Fridolin's dad is Galarian !!

Just had blood taken I'm seeing stars wweeooo

FRIDOLIN LORE RUNDOWN except it's not necessarily fleshed out yet and a lot of it still very " for plot reasons this happens " I think ( also forgive my terrible comma placing skills )

HAPPY FRIDOLIN !

Fridolin never joined team plasma , he was essentially raised with team plasma as part of his life . He's the grandson of one of the seven sages ( Bronius ) and never had any chance or reason to leave team plasma .

Of course he wasn't an active working member up until he was around 15 ( He's around 17 during the events of bw ) , though he was allowed to tag along with his parents to e.g. speeches by Ghetsis and whatnot .

Despite having been raised with it , Fridolin never cared much for team plasma's plans . He believes in their ideals , very much so , but the working aspect of it all never appealed to him . Throughout his time as a regular grunt most of his work assignments were to tag along with any of the sages and act as a sort of makeshift bodyguard for them , he never liked that . A lot of the time Fridolin would use his " authority " ( the excuse that he can do anything because of his ancestry ) to avoid work , sneaking off with his partner to do whatever , and avoid being told on by his coworkers . He was able to get away with this both because of his incredible skills as convincing his grandfather to excuse this " singular mishap " ( sobbing until he got his way ) or simply because it went unnoticed due to lack of reports .

He isn't exactly of much significance to the canon bw story , since he'd be mostly goofing off during all of it . During the " end " of bw's story , Fridolin is just scurrying to evade capture seeing as his parents ditched without him , and his grandfather is obviously with the other sages still . At some point throughout this , his first and partner pokemon , Reuniclus / Squishy is fatally wounded ! Meanwhile Fridolin , with the panic and chaos going on in his brain , manages to run himself straight into some fire type pokemon's attack . ( This is kinda very much some " for plot reasons " stuff until I figure it out properly )

He ends up with a group of other grunts , sticking with them and then , eventually , joining team neo plasma , because he seeks the comfort and stability of his old life .

I exaggerated when I wrote that he ran straight into that attack maybe ..

His time in team neo plasma is when he really gets indoctrinated with their goals and beliefs , or at least when this indoctrination starts translating into actual devotion to his job . He gets tossed right back into his old work , except this time more exclusively , as a " bodyguard " type thing for Z i n z o l i n .

Silly image

This time around even more vulnerable to manipulation , Fridolin quickly falls into the belief that things would've gone better for him during the fall of the initial team plasma if he'd " just done his job right " . His job as in being present to support the sages .

Fridolin basically forces himself into focusing entirely on his job and his " obligations to team plasma " . He feels he has to make up for all his negligence in the past , believing anything he used to do , or the people he was close to , to be a distraction .

Fridolin is put into somewhat of a position of authority , or at least that's the pretend of it all , he has the authority but he was pretty much only given his position to put more pressure on him and therefore heighten his wish for good performance . ( Is this too much inspired by N ?? ) His rank isn't much more than , like I mentioned , personal bodyguard , but in front of him it's put on a pedestal and made out to be a position in which he has to perform perfectly , unless he wants everything to crumble and fail .

All his joy and whimsy gone !

I have yet to even try and figure out what's up with post b2w2 Fridolin , since I'm still trying to properly work out all of his established lore and whatnot , but I'll get there eventually !! Wrote this impulsively with an unethical lack of sleep , nvm spelling mistakes or anything like that . 😿😿😿

My artblock is horrendously picky

Tyrant ... as the wisteria maiden ..??

I wanted to work on lore related stuff

But my weird artblock only let me draw this..... I like it tho 🎉

Adding onto this with Phyllis (on the left), who is Faller's rival

and Yin (splinter of Yveltal, on the right) who's B2W2's au protag :3

Also I'm working on subpages on my website for the au..... It's tyrant themed........... aggressive coding in the corner.

PROTAGONISTS!!!! partially.....

The au is going too far au mode

Protagonists in place of Hilda/Hilbert!!

Himmel is supposed to resemble both Hilda & Hilbert because they were the original protagonist for the story 😼😼 ..... Faller is just design freedom his name is a joke about what happens to him

I love these two actually!!!!

NOT FRIDOLIN

But also an oc who is in Unova......

My son Tyrant before/during the horrors of legends Arceus...

Him...... in modern times

Trying to rejoin society

LORE DUUMP !!

Short AU explanation / the important changes to characters for completion purposes : Tyrant & Volo were created by Arceus as representatives of pokemon & humans respectively . They're considered Arceus' sons . They are both immortal , Tyrant can shapeshift tho , which Volo can't .

The reason why Tyrant isn't in Sinnoh is because he went and followed the only family he had left after his brother ( Volo ) disappeared .. that family was . Just Lian btw .

After Lian's inevitable death and Tyrant's inevitable living on because of immortality , Tyrant decided to go back to his " intended by g o d " way of living ... taking the form different pokemon and living as those instead of trying to fit in with humans .

Tyrant and Volo were supposed to be both representatives for pokemon & humanity separately , however , together they were supposed to represent and keep up a healthy bond between pokemon and humans . This didn't really work out with Volo's attempt at overthrowing Arceus and recreating the world , and Tyrant preventing him from doing so , after which Volo disappeared .

Tyrant feels like , so long as he and Volo aren't on good terms and as long as Volo is still considered missing to him and the other deities , pokemon and humans should be kept at sort of a distance from one another . Distance in the sense that , for example , humans shouldn't attempt to learn the language of pokemon ...

These two !

My brain went ahead and expanded on their relationship specifically because it seemed like a fun idea to me . N is Tyrant's horror scenario . A human raised mostly by pokemon , a human who connects to pokemon better than to other humans and therefore a human who's acting out of line . Someone who's endangering the , in Tyrant's opinion , already fragile stability of the world . Tyrant often attempts to offer N help in the form of ( very badly ) trying to teach him how to interact with other people . N actually knows better how to do this than Tyrant does .. Tyrant at first mostly really doesn't realize that a lot of his comments come off as really mean spirited . He doesn't in any way mean to offend N , he also isn't aware of the fact that he's occasionally straight up called N's entire life wrong .

They are friends tho !!

I just think they're neat . Best buds who ( after Tyrant finally accepts that N speaking to pokemon & understanding them isn't the end of the world ) gossip about human mannerisms they find weird with a group of Pidove . They are awesome , trust ..

Doodle !!

TEAM PLASMA OC!!!!!!!

Freak loves his boyfriend very very much.... He also loves NOT doing his job and running off to frolic in the fields with said boyfriend Σ(゜゜)

Mini thing

Work in progress...

Fridolin has an adopted son post b2w2... his name is Chip !!!

Unfortunately I also made this.......because Chip is kalosian ................ it's totally funny

Crying

Oh my goodness I very much have to elaborate on their relationship

I have decided to give myself the freedom of letting them be even more messed up because I have been having the immense urge to do so since the beginning but I wasn't confident enough for it

THESE TWO.... pls ignore if I'm less intricate or something here I feel like this loredump is gonna be more messy in a way??

Fridolin is SEVERELY dependent on Zinzolin. Like, to an obviously unhealthy degree. Zinzolin picked him up when he was at his worst, taught him to blame himself for all the shit that happened to him under the guise of helping him improve himself and his whole 'sage-in-training- status. Zinzolin and the work he gives Fridolin lets Fridolin feel a sense of purpose and in some way makes him feel like he's redeeming himself from his past actions (which were totally all his fault definitely). Fridolin essentially develops a borderline obsession with Zinzolin.

Zinzolin could not care LESS about Fridolin.... like, seriously, that's just another dude who conveniently got very attached to him and would protect him with his life. Except there is this weird sense of pride there, also. Zinzolin doesn't like it because it's already too much of an attachment in his eyes, but he is proud of Fridolin's achievements. Fridolin is after all very much his mentee, and seeing him actually succeeding and even excelling at his duties makes him feel proud. Something which Zinzolin likes even less is that there is an odd sense of care he feels for Fridolin, at least eventually he does.

There's definitely a mutual care between the two even if Zinzolin doesn't like acknowledging it. That care is however very twisted and messed up!

It's a horrible little mix of borderline romantic, purely manipulative, desperation to get over someone else from both sides and an odd platonic appreciation.

Zinzolin tries hard to keep their relationship purely work-based but he fails miserably at it.. There is never anything explicitly romantic between them. Zinzolin wouldn't let it get to that point. (Bear with me here I really can't describe this the same way I tried my best to do with the other lore dumps)

The distancing really doesn't work. It's a constant "only once, only this small thing" which just ends with things happening again and again. Like I mentioned before they are not explicitly romantic and there's boundaries that are never crossed but it's smaller stuff that happens over and over again which has this borderline romantic undertone (I'm doing my best here to word this).

Only image I have of one example... like Fridolin being allowed to sit on Zinzolin's desk. That's a thing. Fridolin sees this as one of his greatest accomplishments, that is his spot and he has it because Zinzolin at the very least tolerates him. It makes him feel validated. Zinzolin keeps telling himself that it's, well, a one time thing! That it's just for fun, to see and maybe internally laugh at how giddy Fridolin gets over it. It's not. Not entirely anyways. Partially it's also because he does enjoy Fridolin's company.

They rely on each other to cope with the fact that they're trying to get over someone else.. Fridolin sees his entire past way of living as wrong, that includes his relationship. He blames himself for getting distracted, and considers the reason for his distraction to be his ex.. who he never officially broke up with but that's just a fun fact. Zinzolin is trying to distract himself from his weird feelings for Ghetsis which he wishes didn't exist. They use their bond with each other as a means of coping with this.

Fun image depicting Fridolin debating if he could style his hair to look like whatever Ghetsis has going on and whether that would get his boss to love him or not...

They are. Incredibly messed up. Both of them. And they both grow dependent on each other to each different degrees. I really can't get myself to explain this in a more organized and thorough way this will just have to do.. but yay!!! Giving myself the freedom to let them be like this!!!!!!!