The Shiny Veluza That Immediately Used Memento In My Face Comes Back To Haunt Me Yet Again…

marry pride month my dudes

Happy birthday to the Fighter!! 🎉

thank you for reminding me

Some pins, charms, and prints I got from Artist Ally at Momocon today!! It’s so cool to see all the art these creators make, I’ll definitely be buying some more stuff the next two days while I’m there!

I'm in a mystery dungeon mood again

Thinking about the explorers of sky hero. How they were probably fighting for their life for as long as they could remember, just like Grovyle, Celebi and Dusknoir. How they thought they would never have a future. How they suddenly had a partner, a team, a family, a whole life ahead of them before learning who they were and what saving the world would mean for them - but they went ahead with it anyway. Always fighting, willing to sacrifice their own future for the future of others. And then the postgame says, you deserve to live. Even if you're being told that it's the right thing to do to sacrifice yourself, you deserve to live and you deserve to fight for your future. I might be reading too much into it, but... man i love this game.

I SEE YOU TAKING REQS..,,, COULD U PLEASE DRAW MY KIDS.,,,,,

OMGGGG YUSSSS!!!! RIBBIONS N AIMILIOS LETSS GOOOOOO!!!!

Thx for the request!!!!!

Do Leo and Clay have any dreams they want to achieve?

Thanks for the ask!! I'm still playing through the postgame of Explorers of Sky right now, so I'll be answering this based in where Clay and Leo are at that point of the story.

Clay wants to be someone that Grovyle would be proud of. After Dialga restored him to the new timeline, Clay slowly started to regain pieces of his memories with Grovyle. This is painful for him because Grovyle essentially raised him in the dark future, and Clay views him as his older brother. This only gets worse as time goes on and he recovers more memories. Despite the pain that this comes with, Clay is determined not to let it get him down. He's determined to live his life to the fullest in the incredible world he protected, because he knows it's what Grovyle would want him to do. He'll keep working hard like he always has, and he'll keep exploring with Leo and helping him achieve his own goals. He'll keep moving forward with a smile on his face, and he'll always be there for Leo, like Grovyle was for him.

Leo dreams becoming as great of an explorer as his parents were. They were master rank explorers, and their exploration team, Team Daybreak, was well known for their many discoveries. Leo wants to achieve Master rank with Clay on Team Sunspark. It seems unattainable to him at first, but he becomes increasingly confident as he explorers more with Clay. He got close to giving up after Clay disappeared, but his return a few months later reignites his motivation. After graduating from Wigglytuff's guild, Team Sunspark quickly becomes known for their explorations of Sky Peak and Blizzard Island. Due to their success in this and in preventing the collapse of Temporal Tower, Clay and Leo become known across the Grass Continent as generational young prodigies, and Team Sunspark becomes recognized as one of the hottest up and coming exploration teams. They're currently at Super Rank, and Leo's more fired up than ever to continue working towards his goal.

Once he achieves master rank, Leo hopes to travel overseas to search for his parents. They went missing a few years before he met Clay while exploring on the Water Continent, and he wants to find out what happened to them. He also wants to discover lots of unique sceneries to paint. He's always looking for fresh inspiration as an artist, and his explorations are a good way at providing that.

Sorry that I went on a bit of a tangent there, but I saw this as an opportunity to dump a lot of the ideas I've had while playing through the postgame. Thanks again for asking!!

wanted to make an adoptable, ended up with a whole new OC i'm keeping

What’s up??

I haven’t been very active lately, so I wanted to make a quick update post. I’ve been good, just busy. I’m currently balancing two summer jobs, being on three Mario Kart teams, and trying to get through Hades II and Persona 3 Reload. Needless to say I’ve been kinda slammed, but I’ve enjoyed having so much to do.

I also finished my run of Explorers of Sky a little bit ago, and it was everything I thought it would be and more. All of the characters were fantastic, but I particularly adore Grovyle and his relationship with the hero. I want nothing but happiness for that lizard. The Darkrai arc also hit like a truck, I seriously do not know how they managed to fit such mature and heart wrenching themes that I relate to on a personal level into a kid’s game. I have a few writing ideas jotted based on how I think specific scenes or interactions would go with Team Sunspark, so expect to see some of those here in the near future! The first one is almost done, snd I’m hoping to have it posted this week.

Ok, that’s all I got! Thanks for reading, and have a good day/night/whatever time you are reading this at! :D

So the doodles I talked about wanting to make in this post somehow turned into me making mini references sheets for my Explorers of Sky OCs, so I’m gonna share those here!

Say hello to team Sunspark!!

Clay (he/him) is a human turned Shinx. He’s very friendly and outgoing, and he does most of the talking for Team Sunspark because of this. He tends to act quickly, and can be a bit impulsive at times. He initially joins Wigglytuff’s guild as an apprentice with Leo hoping to find out more about where he came from. As they go on more missions and grow closer, he quickly comes to realize that he doesn’t care if his memories ever come back if it means he can stay with Leo forever. He keeps the fact that he was human hidden from anyone he isn’t close to, as he would like to adjust to pokemon life without being treated differently.

There are a few things about Clay that make him visibly different than any other shinx. The first is his eyes, which are bright green instead of yellow. He also has a strangely shaped scar on his leg that he doesn’t know the origins of. Neither of these things give away the fact that he was human, but he suspects that they’re connected in some way.

Clay had his scarf with him when he woke up on the beach with amnesia. He treasures it because of this, as it’s the one thing connecting him to whatever his past holds. I wonder who could have given it to him…

Leo (he/him) is Clay’s partner and a charmander who’s lived in Treasure Town his entire life. He’s much more introverted and nervous than Clay is, but he grows to be comfortable talking with Clay and becomes more confident in his presence. His parents were once well renowned explorers, and he looked up to them greatly. However, they never returned from an exploration a few years back, so he’s been living on his own since then. Leo wants to follow in their footsteps and become an explorer, but the pressure of carrying their legacy is a lot for him to bear. He struggles with confidence, but with Clay there he believes he can do it.

The band Leo wears on his arm is one he dyed to be a similar blue to Leo’s scarf, so the team has matching accessories. He’s much more organized than Clay, so carries Team Sunspark’s bag and manages their items.

If you have any questions about these two please please please ask!! I had a lot of fun doing this, and I want to flesh out these characters more!