a look into the healing properties of ▆▆▆'s power
[prelude]
...some notes from the "White Book"! Will you read it?
>Yes
when I started this second comic, it was primarily to address these plot beats GameFreak left in their writing of the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Epilogue that I found to be "immersion-breaking":
why didn't the protag tell anyone about Kieran? (my answer: they had to keep it a secret)
why did the protag travel from Kitakami to trigger the epilogue, then fly back to Paldea real quick before going back barely a week later? (I can't justify it for GameFreak lol so for me there are two protags and one of them was already in Kitakami, while the other got the call from Arven.)
I know in game this was done from a gameplay perspective, but it's fun to imagine an intricate story and reasoning for all this :] With this, my version of events can still play out in the games themselves without being too au-y. (It's even in-line with my previous pkmn art, which I'm semi-particular about.)
Of course, it was also to give my version of Florian and Juliana as well as Nemona some form of closure. I wasn't planning on healing them, but a kind comment from someone led me to this little brief passion project. Although the characters aren't mine, they seem to have taken hold of me anyway, driving me to finish telling their story.
Making this was what I call "wish-fulfillment" art. It has shippy elements, a bunch of specific exposition a nerd like me would care about, JP text for a character raised in fictional rural Japan that I'm aware not many would enjoy as I do? Or, idk. It's fanservice for me alone, and it was extremely fulfilling to draw, which is what matters. Believe it or not, it's been a while since I've been unapologetically able to enjoy drawing like this.
Basically, I blacked out and boom. These silly guys took over my life. I enjoyed it. I hope you guys do too.
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This was the best scene in the Indigo Disk DLC, super fun Kieran arch happening here. Done traditionally in pen and ink and then shaded some online, this sort of mock manga page of this scene. It was super fun to do!
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big fan of the teacher who's so obsessed with a turtle that some kids have a bad field trip, and then she writes a book about it when it's all over
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eat up babes, I finally made fanart for @dipplinduo’s Sweet & Sour Dipplins (go read it now this is a threat) but the doodles get progressively less goofy as we go down
also spoilers for the story
I am so excited to see where this story goes (I know I say this every time but there’s always those moments that keep making me kick my little legs and giggle) and there will absolutely be more fanart of this fic
and we need to talk about the flowers you know who you are 🫵
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Toxic Consequences AU: Carmine, Briar, and the Terapagoses
Terapagod design by @indigodiskmybeloved
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Another idea for What-Ifs:
What if Briar found out about Kieran and Juliana, and with her wanting to keep both of them close (in ha, VERY different ways) she instantly tries to shut it down— think the scene with Kieran but more manipulation on Juliana’s part rather than Kieran because she can count on the possession to do that for her anyways
I think it would be a really interesting concept to see Briar essentially play Mother Gothel and try to keep Juliana away from Kieran for her own selfish reasons (perhaps so Kieran can finally just be fully possessed and make that final wish for power, or maybe perhaps so she can keep Juliana by her side to use her)
:)
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controversial take…
i find it so interesting how carmine dosent like the player at first because she doesn’t (rightfully so) like the idea of tourists coming to kitakami and disrespecting her home region yet when kieran + briar come to paldea, all they do is snoop around turos old personal files and then disrespect the great creator + terapagos by trying to yank that thing out of its slumber lmao
it’s also interesting from briars perspective since her ancestor, heath, was basically shunned from society after writing the violet book and now she has the privilege to be in area zero and she’s enabling an already on edge (and a little bit selfish) child to just manhandle a godlike pokemon …like ma’am…
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