#Rehydrated

[ladyphoenixnine]

[starryknight-dragonarts]

Over October I made a bunch of Pokemon versions of some classic Characters from English Gothic Horror: Victor Frankenstein, Count Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde... A little late to the party but I say let the Spooky Season Continue! Day of the Dead is in November, the days are getting darker and colder, and the Wild Hunt Persists through to the Winter Solstice hollering through the sky in pursuit of their spectral prey!

If Vampires are the Nobles of the Undead there is still one higher, The King...Tonight is for the Mummies! Theoretically almost any pokemon could be a Mummy, the Egyptians mummified thousands of Animals as well as Pharaohs and Nobles; From Cats and Dogs to Crocodiles, Baboons, Birds, etc...but I decided to bring back a familiar character. Ozymandias the Lucario. Ozymandias' name comes from a poem which uses the the Greek version of Pharaoh Ramesses II, and Lucario is based on Anubis the God of Funerary Rites and Mummification, so it felt just too ideal to make a Lucario named after an Pharaoh the representative for the Mummy, albeit more along the rehydrated variety than the husk variety, but there is precedent to that in English Literature with there being many stories of Mummies coming back looking as they did before they died and having strong opinions about the future world they have woke up into. Ozymandias certainly has some strong opinions about this world.

(I also took some inspiration form: Madara Uchiha - Naruto Lord Pain - Naruto Dio - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Kars - Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Seto Kaiba - YuGiOh and Demon King Ganondorf - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom)

Ozymandias was born to an era of seemingly endless Wars and Chaos between the Legendaries and Yaldabaoth the Usurper and his Dark Forces. In order to survive the onslaught of destruction you needed to be strong, but Ozymandias strove beyond just survival and strength, he fought to establish a land of security and order amongst the chaos and save as many pokemon as possible. By his own effort he became The King of Kings mighty and righteous ruling the greatest empire the world had yet seen, though it came at great personal cost to him including the life of his young daughter Princess Anapi who fell ill while he was away.

Ozymandias firmly believes Rulership should not belong to those who desire power, Rulership is a sacrafice that demands of the leader to constantly fight themself to be greater than themself, but this has lead him to sees the faults and impurities in everyone else around him, and believe that no one else is qualified to be incharge and that it's his duty to take charge and will lead people to overcome their earthly flaws whether they want it or not.

By the end of his life he was laid to rest in a great tomb alongside his daughter, becoming a mummy so he could rest but his spirit would inhabit his temple and offer his wisdom to his successors through the ages till he may rise again revitalized and immortal to lead the world again to a new prosperous age, But following his death Yaldabaoth was finally sealed by the Legendaries and his existance was erased from the memories of pokemon. While Ozymandias was remembered as a great king the context for his rule was lost, and so was part of his legacy, so he never got to pass on his Wisdom.

The world he woke up to, he was not very impressed with, he believes this current world is corrupt and weak, a problem he plans to rectify... An old Absol called Tezoca the Hierophant found him and offered him a role familiar to organization from his era which withstood time by the allowance of the Legendaries; The Major Arcana, a group founded as spies to undermine Yaldabaoth in his era, now they were guardians to protect the world from his return. Fittingly Ozymandias was given the Tarot card of "The Emperor" and he joined with other members in the Major Arcana becoming known as the 7 Heavenly Virtues, representing the Virtue: Chastity, not because he has specifically sworn off Sex specifically though is not particularly interested in anybody sexually...more like he values self discipline. "Ones with this virtue are unhindered by worldly desires. They are able to overcome temptation and show self-discipline not through lack of being tempted, but rather of making the conscious decision to better yourself rather than do what you know is morally wrong." However despite representing Virtues and their initial reputation as heroes they soon became feared! Ozymandias doesn't care though, he is determined to make a better world he rules regardless of what pokemon think of him.

[skrankku]

Concept: Karlach-powered steam sauna.

[phykoha]

back at it again with the mikey designs

[demiboydemon]

[gummys-selfships]

Well they fucking succeeded

[anemicjellyfish]

At some point, I need Stolas to be summoned to earth by his followers, have him sit through whatever nonsense they do, and then he just pulls out his cellphone and calls Blitz.

Stolas: Hey, can you come pick me up again?

Blitz: I was wondering where you went. Alright, where did you get summoned this time?

Stolas: [insert place Brandon Rogers is known to dislike]

Blitz: christ on a stick it would be [place] okay fine!

[webspinnerii]

[sealhaus]

Alastor redesign because why on glob’s green earth did they draw him like that

I was going for a “poorly taxidermied deer left out in the rain for a week, badly pretending to be a normal human man” vibe.

I fixed his horrible horrible fuckass bob and peeled his face right off like an orange

[daeyumi]

au Ganondorf 🪷

ngl i am Very proud of his design

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Mugly

Debut: Donkey Kong Country Returns

Mugly is named after the fact that he is ugly. I have a few problems with that. One, I disagree! He is not ugly. He is endearing. His name could have been Mendearing. Move the position of the A, and his name is Meandering! That's a real word. #words

My other problem is, it's mean to call him ugly. He's just creature. Even if he wasn't just creature, it would be mean. As Knack, from Knack, taught us all those years ago, ice is nice. That means that nice is ice. And ice is coool!

Something else cool is eating plenty of fruit! Since fruit is healthy, it is good to eat obscene amounts of it, as Mugly does. When confronted by the Kongs, he simply looks at them, then continues eating bananas. He's just a snacker, serious about snacking! Why foster animosity when you can eat some mellow yellows? Well, a reason to do that is to be declared the boss. So poor Mugly gets hypnotized and beaten up, for the crime of "having a bite to eat". This soul is the saddest of all...

But clearly the team loved Mugly! Even though they named him rudely, they clearly loved his design, and his animations, enough to use them again! This is Thugly, who may have an even worse name, because not only does it imply he's ugly, but a thug, as well. What does he do before he's hypnotized? He eats bananas. These lumps of beast are innocent! Why must we fight them, instead of some truly vile creatures like Very Gnawty?

The main reason I wanted to present these two to you is that, while their horns, claws, and other features make them seem rather reptilian, they've always struck me as big amphibians! Kind of like Rhinesuchids, the ol' crocodilian-like amphibian ancestors! But lumpier, like a modern frog.

Mugly appears in Tropical Freeze, making a cameo in an unlockable diorama! See him? He's frozen in there! How sad. Good thing here in Cartoons World, animals can be entirely encased in ice, and end up entirely unharmed. They might even use it for time travel...! Mugly's latest appearance is in the HD version of his debut game, which begs the question: is it better to be entirely frozen and incapable of doing anything, or to appear in a mid remake of a game that already got a port to another system? This is what goes through the mind of the humble wood frog before it allows its tissues to freeze for overwintering.

[xenon-guava]

Coronation

NOT spoilers for totk peeps. I wanted to design a young Ganondorf.

More backstory for Ganondorf. At the age of 18, Ganondorf is formally crowned as King of the Gerudo. As is tradition, a male Gerudo cuts his hair at the start of adulthood. The length of hair grown there after signifies his years as a man, no longer a boy.

[twilightangel004]

[dragonbma]

Dude, I read your last post as "Vos Ghost" instead of "Vos Ghast". But can you imagine it if Vos did reincarnate as a ghast or his soul just came back as a ghast? I wonder what Jack's reaction would be.

I’m sobbing I did not expect the Vos/Ghast post to get so popular where are you people coming from-

POV you rescue a lil ghastling and bring it back to the sea and it just starts speaking jabberwocky. Jack is worried at first but gets a tad silly- TADA!! Now Vos can feel like his old self while they figure this out…

Vos meanwhile…

He’s aghast- literally

[demiboydemon]

[purestblue]

So I saw this post and

I had to try it out to see it for myself

It's such an interesting feature.

Ganondorf looking at the shit I do