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Faust

just

Faust

he and Dante get along at least

they're good friends

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Random poses for Faust and Dante

Faust just exudes confidence

Dante could be quoting Shakespeare for all anyone knows

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okay yeah they're definitely both guys

within 24 hours they are both characters

because of course they are

Dante the Delphox is Calm, often lost in thought, and tends to be quite poetic; he also has a sarcastic side and will mess with people's heads when he's feeling particularly displeased.

Faust the Gardevoir is shiny, Sassy, and mischievous; he just likes to fuck with people because it's fun.  How the two of them are friends is anyone's guess, but they get along surprisingly well. 

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I don't even know where this came from

I just really wanted to draw a Ralts and Fennekin pair that were friends

and somehow it became

this

I don't even know okay but it was really fun to draw

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more bats

(I really like bats)

including mommy and baby bats because BATS

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busy day

have a noibat

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Conceptually I really like both Zoroark and Delphox

they're made of magic and they're foxes really what's not to love I say

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So if Delphox is loosely based on the oracles of Delphi

it's probably not a leap to assume that some of their divining involves some performance

if that's so then this one seems like a total ham

i also think it's a guy

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more Noiverns

I keep running out of room on my page when I draw their wings which is why they're a little small :c i need to work on my space management clearly

STILL HAVE SOME (more) BATDRAGONS

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just some bat wing practice don't mind me

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I love bats like very little else in the world

bats and foxes

(go flying foxes)

So when Noivern was announced I about flipped because THEY ARE SO AWESOME OKAY SOMEDAY I AM GOING TO TRAIN ONE AND IT WILL BE AWESOME

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NOIBAT

NOIBAT NOIBAT NOIBAT I LOVE NOIBAT

Someday I'm going to train a Noibat

drawing them makes me want to start Y :c 

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So I can safely say that I have a lot of Pokemon I really, really like.  A lot of them I like because they look awesome (Noivern), and some of those I also love their core concepts (Absol).  There aren't many Pokemon I like primarily for their concept.

Exploud is one of those few. 

Think about it.  Their Pokedex entries discuss how they can freely manipulate the tone and volume that comes from each of the ports on their body.  What if one of them was raised with classical music training?  A Whismur raised on the symphonies of Bach and Beethoven, or even on religious organ pieces?  Practicing in its tiny whispered voice until it evolves into a Loudred, where it continues to train with its new amplifiers?  And then, evolving into an Exploud, it could be used in concerts, symphonies, religious services (depending on training) as a living instrument.

The potential for such musicality is really appealing to me, and I've always been so intrigued by the line. 

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Machamp

NOT ALL POKEMON ARE CREATED EQUAL

in this case

this Machamp couldn’t care less about the whole bodybuilder thing — all he really wants to do is serve people nice homemade meals

and four arms make that a lot easier

(bonus under the cut)

REALLY I CUT THIS BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND ANYONE SO PLEASE DON'T HATE ME

but I just

really wanted to draw a Machamp doing the Tandava

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ludicolo? :U

Pardon me, Miror B.

don’t you already like Ludicolo?

or is this just your insidious plot to make other people like Ludicolo

I’m on to you

…with that said though

That sombrero is apparently good for something — protecting smaller things from the rain

and a ukelele Pichu cameo because I LOVE THE RANGER SERIES

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Magmortar

oh man magmortar

FUNNY STORY HERE

at one point I pretty much hated them

thought they were awful and a plague on the Magmar line which hadn’t even been one of my favorites before anyway

AND THEN H-DAY CAME AROUND

Now part of what triggered H-Day was Diane receiving one of these demon eggs which wound up hatching

into a Magmortar

and then going off to wreak havoc in Archer’s office

now as I planned things out I realized that losing all their Pokemon meant that Archer wouldn’t have his then-egg with him

so it was probably in his office

where the Magmortar was

and Magmortar as it turns out has the Flame Body ability

which is one of those abilities that speeds up hatching

which led me to believe that the Magmortar was in Archer’s office trying to take care of his egg

at that point the Magmortar became a she and was affectionately dubbed Mamamortar

trying to hatch his egg

I've actually been considering trying to requisition that Magmortar from the bank for Diane's research efforts but I'm not sure if that would be allowed or not :c I really did have a hard time deciding between Axeface and Mamamortar at the time, though, and primarily picked Axeface because it would be far more difficult for Diane to get him back, as a random Haxorus from the Bank, than it would be for her to find a Magmortar that would probably be tagged as A THREAT TO EVERYONE TAKE AT YOUR OWN RISK for nearly destroying the base

SO YES

I actually kind of like Magmortar now :c ~ <3

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HAXORUS

AXEFAAAAAAAAAAACE

honestly whenever I think of ‘cute Haxorus’ I think of Axeface

I love Axeface

I mean HOW CAN I NOT LOVE HIM LOOK AT THIS GUY

he’s just so happy to see you and be around you and he wants to say hello don’t let the axe blades on his face fool you he’s a sweetheart

Actually funny story with Axeface

Waaaaaaay back when there was this awesome event

technically it was called the Rocket Pokemon event

but given that fully evolved Pokemon hatched out of demon eggs and it started with the terrors hatching

we affectionately dubbed it ‘H-Day’

Axeface is a product of H-Day

in that everyone involved lost their usual Pokemon and was randomly assigned one Pokemon from the Rocket Bank

Somehow

Somehow Diane got matched with a Haxorus

And I knew from the start that the only way for her to handle a dragon AT ALL was if he was not intimidating

in any way shape or form

AND THUS AXEFACE THE BIRDRAGON CAME TO BE

and I mean birdragon in the sense that he totally acts like a bird

he chirps a lot

and if Diane sits still long enough

he preens her hair