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Rocket’s Home for Uninvited Villains - Chapter 12: Stranger

“’All right, Nihi! It's almost done!’ said Lusamine, attaching a potato with a light bulb to the microwave's circuit board with a USB cable and some permanent glue. She was sitting in the middle of the hallway on the second floor, next to her Nihilego plush doll.

It was a Sunday afternoon, and all her housemates were currently either downstairs or not at home. Guzma, Archie, Maxie and Giovanni were sitting on the couch in the living room, watching a new movie that the Skull Boss had downloaded from the Internet. Ghetsis had left with his son to buy some new clothes for himself, although he only agreed to go after N promised he would bring him his old spear from Unova in return. Lysandre had also left the house, claiming that he just had to buy that new woolen phone case he had seen on TV the night before.

Therefore, there was currently no one supervising what Lusamine was doing, and that was hardly ever a good sign...”

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Chapter info:

Genre: Comedy, mostly.

Length: 5746 words.

Characters: Giovanni, Archie, Maxie, Ghetsis, Lusamine, Guzma, Lysandre, N, Cyrus.

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Rocket’s Home for Uninvited Villains - Chapter 11: Catharsis

“It was almost three in the morning. Giovanni and his housemates couldn't wait to get home, so as soon as the car turned around the corner and Maxie saw the mansion across the square, he couldn't help whispering “finally” to himself.

The day had been pretty difficult. Not only had it been emotionally and psychologically demanding, but the long distance they had to cross in such little time made it even more stressful than the usual for a funeral...”

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Chapter info:

Genre: Comedy.

Length: 3338 words.

Characters: Giovanni, Archie, Maxie, Ghetsis, Lusamine, Guzma, Lysandre.

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Rocket’s Home for Uninvited Villains - Chapter 10: Tragedy

“’Ugh!’ exclaimed Giovanni, without taking his eyes off the newspaper in his hands, ‘I liked it better when Ghetsis didn't have anything in his room! Now he plays that stupid organ all day long!’

‘Well, it could be worse...’ replied Maxie, ‘at least he's good at it.’

‘Bah! What's the point of playing well if all he plays are those modern and contemporary pieces... A bunch of noise!’

’I don't like it either...’ said Maxie, ‘but I prefer having him occupied by playing his organ than down here annoying us!’

‘Maxie's right, Gio-gio!’, said Guzma, who was laying down on the floor...”

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Chapter info:

Genre: Relatively sad narrative.

Length: 2584 words.

Characters: Giovanni, Archie, Maxie, Ghetsis, Lusamine, Guzma, Gladion.

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Random Alt-HC sketch...

Recently thought about this headcanon bit about Lysandre having chronic pain since the accident in Geosenge... (Plus being immortal now, which is the only reason he didn’t die in said accident). That combined with my sad, sad headcanon that Cyrus has post-traumatic stress disorder since the Distortion World thing results in (possibly) the most tragic Pokémon ship ever, ince said headcanon is the same one in which I ship Cyrus with Lysandre.

Anyways, just a reminder that none of this applies to my comics, of course. In the DBAMC universe, Lysie and Cyrus are not romantically involved, Cyrus is aroace and Lysie is in love with Sycamore, and also Lysie doesn’t have chronic pain. Cyrus DOES have PTSD in both headcanons, though.

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After two hours or something I got to make my personal blog start working again (it had broken a while back, it wouldn’t let me post or reblog anything, it would just say that it couldn’t load the forms - been like that for almost a month).

Anyway, one of you sent me that anon ask there and I felt like I should reply to try to clarify my intentions with the characters. It’s always good to have some feedback on my work and I’m always hoping to make these comics likeable for everyone. As always, I want to know if I’m doing something wrong or hurting people of being offensive towards some group of people. If you think the way I’m making Rose (or any other character) doesn’t correspond with how I’m trying to make him be, you can always talk to me.

Comedy is somewhat cruel on its nature, but I’m always trying to make it light and reasonable, to show empathy towards my own characters and to develop them in interesting ways. Rose is no exception! ^^

I love your comics but I feel like you're portraying Rose like some sort of joke. I and a lot of other people who love Rose HC him with anxiety and its really insulting the way you're making him act. Idk maybe you don't HC him the same way but seeing you take Cyrus' depression so seriously and then treating Rose like he's some sort of idiot really stings. Or maybe I'm projecting too much. I'm sorry if this upsets you and you don't have to pay it any mind if you don't want to.

Heya! I’m really sorry that you feel this away about our Rose. First of all, I have to say that I don’t headcanon Rose with anxiety or any other sort of mental issues (like I do with Cyrus), which is why I feel comfortable with portraying him the way I do. In fact, I myself have anxiety (besides depression) and I know just how serious it is, so I wouldn’t want to joke with that. I’m sorry if the way I portray Rose felt insulting, it wasn’t the intention. I’ll try to explain the logic behind our characters, including Rose.

The thing with my comics is that it’s a comedy thing, even though I do take some aspects of it very seriously, so all characters are somewhat treated as “jokes”. Usually the way we make comedy involves working around the characters’ flaws in a way to make them somewhat funny, but keeping the characters likeable and relatable. Each of them has strong “flaws”, and by that I mean characteristics that cause them to generate conflict, even if they are not necessarily “flaws” as in “inherently bad”:

Giovanni is very easily-stressed, he has little patience. He has some family issues too, but we try to play on those carefully. Maxie is very anxious, and has a strong need to be in control of everything because he is very insecure - and that part of him is partially inspired in myself, I have to say. Archie is dumb, like... the one character that is just very dumb in a way that people usually aren’t - but he has lots of positive traits to compensate that. Cyrus has extremely poor social skills, he is very rude and a perfectionist too. Ghetsis is... oof. Ghetsis is kind of the ‘bad example’ character, besides being stressed all the time and sadistic, he is also homophobic, intolerant, violent, etc, etc... In fact, if anyone in my comics is treated kind of unfairly, I suppose that’s Ghetsis... But I intend on giving him some long-term character development, as well as with most characters. Lysandre is super selfish and has no common sense, Guzma is very lazy and a big liar, Lusamine is sometimes creepy and childish... And, well, the “flaws” we gave Piers and Rose are: Piers has self-esteem issues and is very likely to self-depreciate, while Rose is super hasty because he’s always trying too much to help but usually acts before thinking.

All of these traits are like... traits that many people have in their lives, and our intentions are not to make fun of actual people who have these traits - just use them as a tool to make comedy: in order to make it funnier in the comics, we exaggerate them and make them absurd (in a way that most people don’t behave on a daily basis). We like to work with comedy based on absurdity. So the characters behave in such an unlikely way that it turns out as funny. Of course that the absurd can be used the other way round to show tragedy too, you can feel sorry for a character that acts in an absurd way, you can show people being absurdly unfair towards others and that will make the reader feel sad and angry and frustrated...  It all depends on how the narrative works, how things are shown and, specially, how bad the consequences of the absurd actions are. We try to keep things light and funny most of the time, but we understand that humor is a delicate subject, and sometimes it may have an undesired negative effect on people... It has happened before with our Happy Cyrus series, I actually think nowadays that I should have finished that series in a different way, but either way it’s never our intention to make people feel bad. I apologize if that happened to you with our Rose as well.

What we plan to do with Rose is making him “absurdly” hasty (even if he has the best of intentions). He is definitely NOT dumb, though - this is something we have already discussed (me and my siblings). I don’t think Rose is stupid at all, he is actually a very intelligent man when he thinks carefully about things (after all, he is a super successful CEO). The thing is: he often does things before thinking. If I was writing non-comedy or partial-comedy, I would not exaggerate him the way we do in the comics... I’d treat him hastiness more seriously and try to come up with more complex thoughts and feelings behind his actions. But to create the comic effect, we exaggerate all characters to the “absurd” level (as I said), and that’s why Rose acts the way he does for now. This is not only about Rose, we just haven’t had the chance to show his other sides yet. (Trust me, you’ll see Archie doing some really absurd things very soon... And Lysandre as well. In future comics, Guzma too will do very absurd things too... Ghetsis has been doing absurd things since the beginning, and Lusamine does them often as well... etc).

Anyway, there’s also this kind of “balance” between absurd and “relatableness” that we try to keep in the comics, so... while all characters have some trait that is enhanced to an absurd level, we usually alternate which of them is being used as “comic” and which is being used as the “contrast” - that is... Rose breaking the table and Giovanni yelling at him - Rose is being comic, doing something absurd, while Giovanni is the contrast - the character we relate to, that reacts to the absurdity of the situation. However, we can also have: Giovanni yelling at the computer because he doesn’t know how to close the browser window and having a huge fit and Rose telling him the computer can’t understand his screams then offering help - In that situation, Giovanni is the “comic” one - his flaw is the one amplified - and Rose takes the role of “contrast character”. Some characters tend to be contrast more often: usually Maxie, Cyrus, Piers, N and sometimes Guzma and Giovanni; while others are more likely to be comic, such as Archie, Ghetsis, Rose, Colress, Lusamine and Lysandre, but we do have situations in which Maxie or Cyrus are the comic characters and someone like Archie or Colress will work as the contrast. It all depends on the dynamics. Sometimes all characters are being absurd and it’s up the the reader being the contrast, even.

But anyway!!! I kinda took this further than I wanted! (Sorry, I studied Language Arts and I like talking about this kind of stuff). What I think has to be clarified here is: we definitely don’t headcanon Rose with anxiety and the kind of thing he is doing is not meant to be a portrayal of a person with anxiety. Quite the opposite actually: he is a super carefree character in our headcanon, who always believes things will be all right and is almost always OK with everything. He is always trying to help others and that desire to be the one who will solve the problem is what leads him to making hasty choices very often. Also, we will most likely give Rose some more “serious” character arcs, like we want to do with the others, so he will definitely have the opportunity to shine and show his good traits as well. He is very humble, he is generous, he avoids conflict, he is intelligent and creative, he likes to make people smile... He has good things in him, and we want to show them with time, just like we would like to do with all characters.

I hope this explanation makes you feel better about this whole thing. We’ll be careful not to turn Rose into a flat character with only jokes to him... It’s not our intentions, and we want to make him a complex character like the others.

It makes me sad that my comics have hurt you and other fans of Rose, because our intention is to make people smile with them, so I hope you understand what we are trying to do and accept my apologies. I love Rose as much as I love my other characters, and I think the only reason why I am so attached to Cyrus and talk so much about his depression is because I have the same problem and it’s always something that’s coming back to me at times, even more than my anxiety... I sometimes use Cyrus as some kind of “vault character”.

Also glad you like my comics even though you had some stuff to criticize! Thanks a lot for the feedback! :)

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Happy pride, everyone! :D

We’ve all been going through a LOT lately, and I have to admit that I would have forgotten about Pride this year if I hadn’t seen some stuff here on Tumblr... But, well, messy as the whole situation is, this is still our month and so I decided to rush a bit and make a few drawings for the occasion! ^^

I decided that, taking all the trouble we’re living through into account, it would be very fitting to focus on “supportive attitute” as the theme for these drawings. Support each other, not only when it comes to your sexuality and your rights, but in every aspect... We have to offer help and support to other people right now as much as we can. :)

1st pic - “Old” LGBTQ+ main characters supporting Cyrus as an asexual and assuring his inclusion in the community.

2nd pic - “New” LGBTQ+ main characters supporting each other. Piers is trans (ftm non-op) and bisexual, Rose is ace and a celibate (these are different things). None of that affects their masculinity and they both belong in the community.*

3rd pic - “Old” non-LGBTQ+ main characters showing support o their LGBTQ+ friends, wearing the straight-ally flag. Ghetsis got tied down on the back so that he doesn’t ruin anything.

*(This art contains censored swear words, if you do not wish to see this, you may block the tag “censored swearing”. DBAMC posts never include UNcensored swearing.)

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Rocket’s Home for Uninvited Villains - Chapter 9: Gathering

“’I'm very excited about meeting your son, Ghetsis!' said Lysandre, taking a sip of his tea, 'Specially if he's just as knowledgeable in art as you are!'

It was the second day since Lysandre arrived at the mansion and Ghetsis' son should arrive around lunch time. Professor Sycamore hadn't come this time, because he had some research to do, but was planning to show up during the weekend for a brief visit before going back to Kalos with his partner...“

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Chapter info:

Genre: Comedy.

Length: 4226 words.

Characters: Guzma, Giovanni, Archie, Maxie, Ghetsis, Lusamine, Lysandre, N.

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Gio and Ghetsis, did you ever take Silver and N trick or treating when they were kids?

Do I still have to repeat myself in terms of how non-reliable this info is when talking about actual Japan? XD aaheahfuhrgu I’m just making up stuff for the Pokémon world. :3

Anyways.... I sometimes feel very bad for Gio. He has lots of family problems. u.u

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Nanu and Miranda (my character in Pokémon Sun)! :3

I love Nanu. I wanted to draw him after finishing Pokémon Sun. Also yeah I know it’s not pride but whatever, I wanted to draw him with all his flags. Been a while I wanted to have an NB in my headcanon (besides Bede that showed up in SWSH) so a while ago I thought about NB Nanu and I really liked that idea. He’s also demiromantic and asexual. :3

(Reblogs are appreciated, please don’t repost ♥)

Important addition: this is NOT a ship for Arceus' sake. Miranda is a child.

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Multiple Intelligences - PART 2

What are Multiple Intelligences?

The concept of “Multiple Intelligences” is a theory proposed by Harvard Psychologist Howard Gardner, and praised by many educators and psychologists across the world. The theory suggests that “intelligence” can be divided into subcategories related to different sets of skills that influence how our learning and thinking works. At first, there were 7, but two more were added later on. Although also criticized by many, the theory has changed the way educators perceive and use the concept of “intelligence” when working with both children and adults.

What’s going on in these pitures?

These are some tables I made explaining a bit about the villains’ abilities and how their little brains work, what kinds of intelligence they are good at or bad at and so on. Besides the small text description about their biggest strengths and weaknesses, each of them has a complete table with all kinds of intelligence. Each column is a type of intelligence, if it has only one vertical bar, then that means this character is not good at this intelligence. If it has 2 bars, they have average competence in it. If it has all 3 bars, then it means they are really good at that intelligence. Also, you can see that for each villain you can find one intelligence with a set of three white arrows (up) and one with a set of three red arrows (down). These arrows show you the intelligence they are best at (white arrows) and the one they are worst at (red arrows). One more thing: each character is good at 3 kinds of intelligence, average at 3 kinds of intelligence and bad at 3 kinds of intelligence, plus having one intelligence they excel at and one they are very bad at.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those drawings before...?

Yes, you probably did. These I was too lazy to draw all characters again for these charts (plus it would take too long and I wanted to finish this quickly) so I used the same pictures I made for the results of my personality quiz!

Where are the other characters?!!!

This is just the second part of the whole thing, because Tumblr is very annoying with image posts and will only allow 10 pictures per post, but I have 12 characters + the explanatory table about Multiple Intelligences AND an extra table comparing all villains (literally just an exel-style spreadsheet, nothing much). So I had to break the post in two otherwise I’d have to make a text post and resolution might end up weird.

SEE PART 1 HERE!

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Extra questions:

What is “GROSS motor coordination”???

Gross motor coordination is the coordination of large movements (walking, running, dancing, playing sports, etc), while fine motor coordination is the coordination of small high-precision movements (drawing, writing, playing videogames, turning pages, etc)

What is “pragmatics”?

Pragmatics is the branch of linguistics that studies the relationship between communication and social interaction, that is, how language is applied in communicative practices, for example, rethorical questions, conversational turns, unsaid implications, speech organization and so on.

What is “dissonance”?

Dissonance is a relationship between two notes that results in a lack or harmony, causing the combination of them to sound conflicting and tense.

What is “meta-cognition”?

Meta-cognition means the “cognition of cognition”, that is: thinking about thinking. Knowing about knowledge. Understanding and thinking about your own cognitive processes, about your own thoughts and about what you understand.

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Rocket’s Home for Uninvited Villains - Chapter 8: Hunting

“It was Friday and Giovanni's mansion was completely empty. The alarms were all set and the doors were locked. The Pidoves and Pidgeys were asleep, it was past 1 am, the rain was falling down and the streets were desert.

 “Desert, except for two beings: A large, shiny Parasect walking casually near the main square's grassy areas and a tall man with a very large head...“

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Chapter info:

Genre: Comedy, mostly.

Length: 4330 words.

Characters: Guzma, Golisopod, Shiny Parasect, Giovanni, Archie, Maxie, Ghetsis, Lusamine, Lysandre.

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Just one more thing about my last post that needs attention...

I know that last group of drawings was pretty serious and even kinda heavy, but there’s something good we can take from it: In the end, Cyrus is OK.

Yes, he’s still depressed. Yes, he’s still taking meds and going to therapy. Yes, he has ups and downs and sometimes feels bad again. Yes, he still has a trauma to deal with...

...But he’s come a long way, and he’s better than ever now. He’s going to be alright, and that’s the most important thing. That’s the main thing I want you to take from that post. I know it was a sad post, I know most of the drawings really made us feel bad for Cyrus, but I really want that last picture to feel like a big relief, because no matter how bad things were, now he’s healing. :)

I know many of you are probably hurt and facing really difficult times, because the world is a mess and every day we seem to get bad news all over the globe... It’s hard for everyone, and some of us surely have it harder than others. So I know many of you are suffering... But trust me, don’t give up, because at some point things will get better!

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Multiple Intelligences - PART 1

What are Multiple Intelligences?

The concept of “Multiple Intelligences” is a theory proposed by Harvard Psychologist Howard Gardner, and praised by many educators and psychologists across the world. The theory suggests that “intelligence” can be divided into subcategories related to different sets of skills that influence how our learning and thinking works. At first, there were 7, but two more were added later on. Although also criticized by many, the theory has changed the way educators perceive and use the concept of “intelligence” when working with both children and adults.

What’s going on in these pitures?

These are some tables I made explaining a bit about the villains’ abilities and how their little brains work, what kinds of intelligence they are good at or bad at and so on. Besides the small text description about their biggest strengths and weaknesses, each of them has a complete table with all kinds of intelligence. Each column is a type of intelligence, if it has only one vertical bar, then that means this character is not good at this intelligence. If it has 2 bars, they have average competence in it. If it has all 3 bars, then it means they are really good at that intelligence. Also, you can see that for each villain you can find one intelligence with a set of three white arrows (up) and one with a set of three red arrows (down). These arrows show you the intelligence they are best at (white arrows) and the one they are worst at (red arrows). One more thing: each character is good at 3 kinds of intelligence, average at 3 kinds of intelligence and bad at 3 kinds of intelligence, plus having one intelligence they excel at and one they are very bad at.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those drawings before...?

Yes, you probably did. These I was too lazy to draw all characters again for these charts (plus it would take too long and I wanted to finish this quickly) so I used the same pictures I made for the results of my personality quiz!

Where are the other characters?!!!

This is just the first part of the whole thing, because Tumblr is very annoying with image posts and will only allow 10 pictures per post, but I have 12 characters + the explanatory table about Multiple Intelligences AND an extra table comparing all villains (literally just an exel-style spreadsheet, nothing much) that will come with the second part of the post. So I had to break the post in two otherwise I’d have to make a text post and resolution might end up weird.

SEE PART 2 HERE!

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Extra questions:

What is “GROSS motor coordination”???

Gross motor coordination is the coordination of large movements (walking, running, dancing, playing sports, etc), while fine motor coordination is the coordination of small high-precision movements (drawing, writing, playing videogames, turning pages, etc)

What is “pragmatics”?

Pragmatics is the branch of linguistics that studies the relationship between communication and social interaction, that is, how language is applied in communicative practices, for example, rethorical questions, conversational turns, unsaid implications, speech organization and so on.

What is “dissonance”?

Dissonance is a relationship between two notes that results in a lack or harmony, causing the combination of them to sound conflicting and tense.

What is “meta-cognition”?

Meta-cognition means the “cognition of cognition”, that is: thinking about thinking. Knowing about knowledge. Understanding and thinking about your own cognitive processes, about your own thoughts and about what you understand.

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Rocket’s Home for Uninvited Villains - Chapter 7: Visitor

“’Oh, Archie! You'll never believe who it was!’ said Maxie, coming back to the dining room. The red-haired man had left the dining table to answer his phone and had just spent nearly half an hour talking to whoever it was that had called him.…”

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Chapter info:

Genre: Comedy.

Length: 3387 words.

Characters: Giovanni, Archie, Maxie, Ghetsis, Lusamine, Lysandre, Prof. Augustine Sycamore.

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New DBAMC Fanfiction!

How the heck did all these villains end up living together with Giovanni???

That’s a question people ask me very often! But fear not, scamps! Now you may know the answer!!! You just have to read my new written fanfiction:

“Rocket’s Home for Uninvited Villains”! (Chapter 1)

Chapter info:

Genre: Comedy, mostly.

Length:  3236 words.

Characters: Giovanni, Ariana and Silver.

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Rocket’s Home for Uninvited Villains - Chapter 6: Runaway

“It had been five weeks since Giovanni had come back to his mansion. Maxie and Archie hadn't yet found another job or a better place to stay, but every time they talked to Giovanni about it, he would casually tell them to stay for another week. In return for his hospitality, the couple would help with several tasks in the house, and Maxie was now responsible for cooking all the meals. Giovanni, who really liked Maxie's food, was actually glad to have someone helping him with it, since he himself didn't know how to cook. In the end, he was actually getting used to having Archie and Maxie around, and was beginning to appreciate their company, even though the Aqua Leader often caused more harm than good.

“On the other hand, Ghetsis, who was also still living in the house and refused to leave or even look for a better place to stay, bothered Giovanni a lot. Still, every time the Rocket Leader tried to kick him out, he would throw a major tantrum, which would without fail lead to Giovanni telling him he could stay for another week as long as he shut up.

“As a result, the four men had been living together in relative harmony for more than a month now…”

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Chapter info:

Genre: Comedy.

Length: 5892 words.

Characters: Giovanni, Archie, Maxie, Ghetsis, Lusamine.