#introducing... the mewtwos of this AU

[definitely-not-a-mew]

Happy Birthday twins!!

[tokyoteddywolf]

I realize I don't have a reference for this guy yet so ta-da! Meet the Shadow Mewtwo, before he was purified.

His name is [reDActED] and he's Psychic/Dark, which makes him x4 effective against poor Obsidian and her Psychic/Ghost typing. She's screwed, lmao.

Does he have lore? Yes. Will you get that lore? Not anytime soon, lmao. Am I gonna get around to drawing that? Maybe, or I'll write it out fic style since the art takes too long in my opinion. Maybe I'll start tacking that on the ends of the comics to provide some context in some scenes, might help with the burnout.

Fun facts: only one of the Synergite crystals growing out of him is supposed to be there. He doesn't know how to take care of it, which is kind of what's led to this predicament in the first place. There are a lot of things he doesn't know about his biology, between what's been modified and what is from the mythical Mew that nobody's ever seen. Allegedly. They had to get the DNA somehow...

MASTERLIST

[metalmewtwo-kxb]

OC art update! Original with lineart by @pokemon-ash-aus (bottom - original post -> here ) and official/revamped design with my own art (top).

This is Kelpi, my second mewtwo OC that will be in the story alongside Benta eventually. For the new art I added to the discoloration marks in her fur to look more "splashy", as well as tinted the color to be more brown than gray.

As mentioned in the former post, she is a short and intensely bitey thing. Full grown in spite of being kind of small. She also has a more mew-like, prehensile tail that's much longer than she is tall. I plan to do a full dex entry with her at some point when I introduce her officially and have more artwork of her done.

[inaris-pokemon-world]

"Evil" Team AU! Inari and some of her family/friends in a self made "evil" pokemon team of some kind.

Evil can be just being seen as that, to mischievous stunts, or actually evil stuff.

I’m making this a PMD-esque AU where legendaries aren’t superpowered deities but just powerful, rare Pokémon. As a result, everyone knows Inari is a Mew.

I haven’t come up with a good name yet, but the entire goal of this band of misfits is FUN. They’re somewhere in between performers and miscreants, depending on who you ask. Inari is the ringleader.

Inari had Mochi and Pocky the old-fashioned way, with a Mewtwo she’d been dating at the time. He wasn’t ready for fatherhood, and Inari didn’t push it. She just became a kickass single mom.

The team mostly does performances, though they’re also WELL known to steal from and vandalize the property of nasty, greedy individuals. Any money they don’t use to keep the act afloat goes to the less fortunate. So rich jerks hate them and have spread the word of the team as evil.

Matcha was found as an egg and adopted by the whole troupe. Said troupe includes Inari, Mochi, Ume, Pocky, Inari’s trainer (who is a Zorua as well!), and a bunch of characters I haven’t officially introduced yet.

[you-must-choose]

Ritchie and Laura

So I vaguely implied it in the very first post, but I'm heavily leaning into the whole "Ritchie is a Discount Ash" Thing in the Papa Meowth AU by making him a Zorua whose parents are a Zoroark and Sandslash from the future, as a parallel to Ash and Delia's whole Mystery Dungeon thing. Why they time traveled is spoilers for Sinnoh. He also has a human sister named Laura who has a mysterious connection to Celebi (mysterious because I haven't figured out what it is or what it means and this buys me some time), as Maria's counterpart.

They've got their own, mostly off-screen journey that strongly parallels Ash and Maria's, including stumbling into their own World Saving Adventures at roughly the same time, though the two journeys overlap occasionally, usually at either the few Canon times Ash and Ritchie have run into each other or during Adventures that are too big to have a reasonable counterpart. This means the two of them and their problems are going to end up plot relevant, especially in Sinnoh.

Anyway, here's their teams up through Orange Islands (they don't show up in the Orange Islands for the record, that's just where Ash and Maria's team list stopped so far). And yes, they both nickname their Pokemon.

Ritchie

Sparky (Pikachu)

Happy (Butterfree) (he probably caught it as a Caterpie but I'm basing the initial stage shown in the list on whatever they first get introduced as)

Naginata (Spearow)

Rooter (Venusaur)

Zippo (Charmander>Charmeleon) (evolves during his battle with Ash's Charizard, which is an actual battle this time)

Torpedo (Tentacool>Tentacruel) (evolves off-screen, not sure when that'll be revealed)

Alec (Morgrem>Grimmsnarl) (A perfect gentleman, in contrast to most of his species. Makes liberal use of Charm and Flatter.)

Sir Daniel (Cubone>Marowak) (the one I mentioned as evolving in the same match as Ash's Cubone. When he's a Cubone his skull helmet is a bit oversized and misshapen for some reason, so it covers one of his eyes and muffles his voice to the point he's almost completely unintelligible, though it doesn't seem to hinder his battling too much and it's fixed when he evolves. based on Sir Daniel Fortesque from Medievil, Because I Can)

Cowl (Arbok)

Grit, Gravel, Grunt, Grace, and Gray (five Dugtrio who Ritchie stumbled into catching in Digglet cave as Digglets. Counterparts to the Tauros Herd)

Quackers (Farfetch'd)

Flare (Beedrill)

Yogi (Ursaring) (Yes, he lives up to the name. How else would he be able to be Sorlax's counterpart?)

Laura

Cadmus (Meowth) (No, he can't talk)

Odie (Growlithe>Arcanine) (Actually evolves in the same scene he's introduced, since Laura bought a Fire Stone from the same vendor as Maria for the same reason that Maria bought Clefable's Moon Stone, at roughly the same time, and that's how they end up meeting each other.)

Rock (Squirtle) (basically Mega Man as a turtle since I made the Squirtle Squad Leader basically Sonic. Has Mega Launcher, Protean and Trace, and somehow knows Sketch, Mimic and Copycat) (yes I rotated which starter ends on what stage. because why not)

Zingo (Electrode)

Hobbs (Hitmonchan)

Grill, Grape, Grand, Gravy and Gru (The other five Dugtrio)

Mochi (Dratini)

Majesty (Nodorina>Nidoqueen) (also evolved at the Stone Vendor at the Indigo Conference because Counterparts)

Arc (Electabuzz)

Lilac (Alolan Vulpix with cybernetic augmentations. I'll explain when I'm done with the lists)

Whirl (Lapras)

...alright, so what's going on with Lilac?

Well, I needed to give them an equivalent to Mewtwo Strikes Back since Maria got a Pokemon out of it, but by that point in the timeline there's only one Mewtwo, and something Celebi-related made the most sense since Laura's connected to it somehow and Ritchie has his whole "my parents are from the future and my egg was laid there" thing, but there's no Pokemon that has a similar relationship to Celebi as the one Mewtwo has to Mew...

...so I made one up.

Celeborg is what happens when you try to take shortcuts when making a Time Machine. Some idiot Mad Scientist in the distant future decided that instead of actually working out how to travel through time, or bothering to program a proper AI, they'd instead install a Celebi DNA sample into a robot and call it a day. The resulting Reverse Cyborg went through a massive existential meltdown blowing up the lab and stumbling backwards in time in the process, and in its unstable mindset decided to make more cyborgs so it wouldn't be alone as the only Thing like itself (and also the scientist may have been working for an Evil Team so the programming that the Celebi DNA wasn't able to sub in for possibly included world domination-type stuff). Somehow Ritchie and Laura got involved and managed to calm it down and it decided to find a place in the present to live peacefully with any of the Cyborg Pokemon who were interested in staying with it.

Celeborg is Grass/Steel Type (because I continue to insist that Celebi's time powers come from its Grass typing and not its Psychic typing. though Celeborg does still learn plenty of Psychic moves) with Levitate as its usual ability and Download as a Hidden Ability. The version in the AU has both thanks to how Abilities work there. Might draw it at some point.

[vallkary]

Because I’m insane!! Pokémon Mystery Dungeon(kinda) Riptide AU except it’s just the Pokemon I think each character would be

SPOILERS INCLUDE: Names for Characters, and their assigned Pokemon may vaguely hint to what happens to their characters.

(Only includes the characters I could list off the top of my head, and they may be in the wrong order for when they were introduced)

To be updated

PLAYERS

Gillion Tidestrider - Starmie

Jay Ferin - Fletchinder (evolves into Talonflame on episode 101-102)

Chip - Zorua (evolves into Zoroark on episode 70 or 86) - (transformed into Hisuian Zoroark on episode 109)

Goobleck - Ditto

GUESTS

Clorten - Druddigon

La Alma - Hawlucha

Tastrius - Cursola

Ichabod - Turtinator

Duke - Simisage

“OMNIPRESENT” NPCs

Arlin James - Passimian

Captain Rose - Resolute Keldeo

Niklaus Hendricks - Jirachi

“Dread Queen” - Shaymin

Captain Shadowbeard - Marshadow

Kubakenta - Spiritomb

Jayson Ferin - Talonflame

Faye Ferin - Talonflame

Caspian - Dhelmise

NPCS

Captain Widow - Darkrai

Captain Lizzie - Shiny Zoroark

Drey Ferin - Talonflame

Finn Tidestrider - Starmie

Gryffon - Pangoro

Marshall John - Emboar

Old Man Earl - Oranguru

Queen - Bunnelby

Oliver Teach - Eevee

Igneous - Golurk

Empress Malice - Hisuian Zoroark

Rudith - Audino

Ayva Ferin - Aromatisse

May Ferin - Aromatisse

Edyn Tidestrider - Shiny Starmie

Ruben Price - Zoroark

Kira - Galarian Rapidash

Ella Teach - Espeon

Rizz Rizz son of Rizz Rizz - Furfrou

Ensa - Metang

Leon Edison - Magearna

Alphonse - Iron Thorns

Roofus - Stoutland

Doctor Ooze - Mewtwo

DIVINE CRITTERS

Dugon - Titan Gyrados

Pelagus - Lugia

Luxbris Oyster - Uhh Idunnow Uxie or something

Dooke - Titan Torterra

“Artificial Leviathan” - Shadow Lugia

The Black Sea - No known Pokémon. Essence of shadowification.

[tokyoteddywolf]

Here have a very lazily animated/drawn napping Obsidian :D

So! Comic is on hold, mainly because I have to focus on finding a job and getting money because as of December 1st, I have 30 days to get my rent money together or I'm being evicted. And I have no money whatsoever.

Which means I could very well end up on the streets or in a women's shelter because nobody else in my family can house me, and dad's given me as much chances as he can since I've been out of a job since early November. Nothing ive applied for has given me any luck, so I'm currently putting everything on hold in the meantime.

This is mainly just saying this is why I've stopped making the comic. I will do more!!! This is not the end of the Obsidian Mew AU! I have so much lore and new characters to introduce, and the whole arc with Shadow Mewtwo to resolve.

But right now I'm more focused on survival, so against, everything is on hold at the moment.

Wish me luck folks.

I do have commissions open though, should anyone like to ask! I'll take what I can get :')

EDIT: I'm fine! I haven't been kicked out, I'm doing okay I promise! Comic should be continuing!