#And THE bastard in pmd

[pokemonfrommemory]

I’m sorry

[scribz-ag24]

last ship requests

[tagarilaghost]

I SWEAR CELEBI'S THINGY IS COMING SOON BUT I REALLY WANTED TO POST THIS ALRIGHT

yeaah... future trio got me too...

and Darkrai is there too, because of course he is.

hey look i drew a cute Drifloon :D

...ignore the rest

whatever started at Darkrai doodles ended in brainrot of future trio + darkrai and I'm blaming @scribz-ag24 for this

[birdcatt]

[riraro489]

Life is flashing before your eyes...

How do you expect to survive?

[madadrawing]

Omg it's a Saphira sorry I've been dead for a bit school got hands. Hope this makes up for it a bit DGDYDYDOOYDODYULF

[midyearflowers]

this man out here selling rocks he found on the ground

[ajdrawshq]

one of my favorite things to do when replaying pmd sky is try to pay more attention to the Treasure Town residents throughout the story. there is ALWAYS new stuff after every little story beat even in places u never think to look and i find something new every playthrough. like i had no idea u could meet Sneasel as early as the start of the Dusknoir chapter!! thats so cool!!

[dull-horns]

Decided to try Huevember too since a friend was doing it ababa

[omensfromaschimos]

Looking at the night sky... I wish I recognized anything up there. I wonder what the specifics of my trip through spacetime really were. I'm in an alternate universe, that's undeniable. But where did things diverge...?

Gods, I'd love to look at the earliest records the Archivists have. Maybe that would help me pinpoint where our histories split...

Hey, wait. Is this even the same planet as mine? Given I've no clue what *any* of the stars in the sky are, it's... not impossible.

I'll have to consult some star charts. If we have any at the Guild.

Ugh, more stuff to check when we finally visit Noivern's Archivists. Add it to the list, I guess.

[pokemonfrommemory]

He’s never done anything wrong in his life ever

[tagarilaghost]

I saw @softstarryblanket 's art, tripped really hard, fell face forward on the ground and somehow woke up to this.

This was originally meant to be a doodle-

Looking a little more like this:

[maple-cloak]

Favorite part of Rescue Team is the Hero faking a stomach ache to avoid fighting Zapdos on Mt. Thunder, inly for the Partner to call you out for it when they did the same thing earlier that day and has the gall to claim that you "do it all the time" and thats its "really annoying"

[gaydiation-poisoning]

You're the only one who understands me Sinnoh

my biggest complaint with how pmd2's darkrai postgame went is how it ended because i know palkia definitely did it all under a massive rush but how is "oh yeah he'll just be donked over the head and will be sent to some remote location in the same continent without his memories (for a certain period of time)" a good way to dispose of him. idc what wigglytuff said about pokemon and evilness we need that shadowy wisp of a slag dead. cresselia can do fine solo i'm sure.

[casualsnickers]

round. friend-shaped. iconic, dare i say. in the world's weirdest polycule. also, could he be anymore obvious as to his mission being a trap? "i was simply testing your strength, my fellow explorer" YOU'RE A TERRIBLE LIAR. super pmd kept him as a bastard man and i wholly appreciate it.

been thinkin about dusknoir and his less-than-optimal history with the player

i do feel like dusknoir should've been given more screen time pre-betrayal as there was never really any backstory as to him being all-knowing and wise. that and the fact that he just never came off as being inherently trustworthy during my initial playthrough of the game. big hulking ghost type... and he's also a warm, jolly fellow? something's not adding up here.

in my own version, dusknoir isn't a famous pokemon nor is he world-reknowned. he's strong, he's knowledgable and he's intimidating. he's been in the past plotting and scheming the same amount of time the hero has. and after all, you don't need other team members to become an explorer.

word would probably reach him via travel about the time gears going missing and he'd immediately scour every inch of the continent for info, eager to throw hands with grovyle only to run into officer magnezone who's investigating the case alongside their fellow magnemites. dusknoir would make up some believable excuse that he's a hobbyist explorer looking to catch grovyle to bolster his own reputation and after explaining what he knows, chief magnezone would take him back to treasure town to have him work exclusively with the wigglytuff guild. it's magnezone who spreads the rumor that dusknoir is well-traveled and intelligent.

dusknoir is both thrilled and exasperated as he now has more access to information via chatot (who actually has the history, skills, documents and reputation of being a head of intelligence) and via wigglytuff's connection to other groups- that, and he now has to work harder to conceal why he's really trying to stay ahead of the guild in tracking down grovyle. he'd be damned if somebody gets their hands on that detestable lizard before he does.

he just lurks around treasure town, mostly in the guild discussing possible locations for the time gears. sometimes, he's gone on solo missions. sometimes, he's in the town buying things. it's understood that he's literally just there to reap the social reward of capturing grovyle and nobody makes a big deal about him just showing up and helping. talking to him is completely optional- he still puts on the fake jolly voice and is very social- but he doesn't really take notice of burr or watts since they're both just guild apprentices doing mundane tasks... that and one of them eats rocks.

one day, he tells chatot that he needs to take a break to reservice his equipment and is pointed specifically in burr's direction to get his wonder orbs repurposed; something only the wigglytuff guild knows about. it's canon that nobody really knows where wonder orbs come from nor how they get their power; they simply exist. same thing with wands, scarves, looplets, etc. not even dusknoir knows the deal with where dungeon items come from or why they replenish themselves.

to dusknoir's knowledge, the only person he once knew who could tinker with wonder orbs without breaking them was grovyle's lost partner... the one who's orbs grovyle still uses to escape being caught. the one who's been conveniently off the radar for some time yet. dusknoir takes the time to ask burr to repurpose his wonder orbs and as she does, he recognizes that she and grovyle's partner share the same name, the same mannerisms, and the same way of actually disenchanting and enchanting orbs (via heat, pressure, and a bit of footprint rune know-how). it's when he catches watts casually making a joke about burr's amnesia to another apprentice does he finally begin to put the pieces together.

the issue with the water float arises. marill & azurill come to the guild looking for hero & partner and make a big scene. almost immediately, burr quietly pinpoints that it's in amp plains (via the dimensional scream ability) and leaves with watts to go and retrive it, dusknoir tagging along because he's familiar with the luxray clan lore and because he has no idea how burr would be able to pinpoint the water float's location so quickly having overheard her.

he comes in handy for the luxray pack and for chasing off team skull once they're found out. the three of them take the float back to town and deliver it back to the marill brothers only for dusknoir to take them both aside later and question their abilities. watts is completely ordinary apart from his relic fragment but being the talkative one, he persuades burr to tell dusknoir about her special ability and to keep it a secret that burr is actually a human.

it's a done deal after that and dusknoir immediately begins laying the bait for both grovyle and his amnesiac partner.

[acti-nerdington]

Honestly speaking these four would make for really fun PMD antagonists

Just four bastards causing MAYHEM