#do you guys instinctively know how to spell 'spinjitzu'?

[pokemon-ninjago-world]

Yo! These are my designs for The First Spinjitzu Master and his eeveelution. (the pose looks way cringy now hsdbkshjf) These are pretty old, and I’ve changed the design since then, but I gon’t have a proper picture of the curent design. But I’ll be rambling about these under the read more if you’re interested!

Again, because the intelligent Pokémon in my AU are only able to breed within the same evolutionary fam, and because Garm bros are eeveons, the FSM needed to be an eeveon as well. I wanted him to be “all elements” like Arceus, so I made this Normal type eeveelution, which would be a mishmash of all the other eeveelutions, including all the types that don’t (yet?) exist in the Pokémon World.

I wanted the design to have some sort of graceful, celestial feel to it as well, and thus I named the eeveelution Soreon, in reference to Japanese word for sky, “sora” (which also worked with the Finnish word “sorea”; graceful, willowy). I don’t know if I like the name a whole lot though. Celesteon would have been a better name imo, but I saw someone’s fake “all-type” eeveelution with that name earlier, and I didn’t want to copy that. If you would have a better name idea than “Soreon”, feel free to suggest! I’d be happy for help.

Alright, so I originally thought I would add a feature from all the other eeveelutions to this mix, but after some brainstorming I realized adding all 18 types would make the design waaay too cluttered `:|  So I dropped some already in this early stage, but I still fitted in more than what there is in my current design. I’ll list those features here and then explain how the design is different now:

From existing eeveelutions, this thing has the forehead gem from Espeon, rings from Umbreon, tail from Vaporeon, ruff from Eevee, rump fur from Jolteon, tears from Sylveon, ear/cheek tuft thingies from Glaceon and Espeon, wrist leaves from Leafeon and head tuft from Flareon.  From fake eeveelutions it had wings, fangs and armour bits.

The wings are from my Flying-type eeveelution Galeon, although when I designed Soreon I didn’t yet have its design, so the wings are too soft and round looking than what Galeon’s wings actually are. The wings and the eyes are the only non-canon-eeveelution features (other than body shape maybe) that are left after I refurbished the design.

The metal bits were from the Steel-type eeveelution that I was trying to design for P.I.X.A.L.’s appearance, but I never made it work and eventually scrapped the idea (she’s modelled after a Luxio now). I also discarded the metal bits from Soreon, because they looked silly, but it’s supposed to have metallic claws instead, and possibly partially or wholly metallic skeleton (titanium or smth that wouldn’t rust).

The fangs were from a Poison-type I never designed, but started thinking they looked funny so I nerfed them. Now Soreon is supposed to have retractable claws that emit poison. ...Don’t ask how retracting claws would work on human-like hands, bc they wouldn’t. Not in the same way they work on cat paws at least. But maybe I’ll come up with something. (i do have an idea for a poison type now, and a rough design idea. it definitely doesn’t have poison fangs haha.)

The eyes were supposed to be from a fake eeveelution as well, and so was the body shape, but I can’t remember what types they were from. I’m not sure if I like the eyes, since they’re so... OwO  But I guess I’m so used to them by now that I won’t change them. I also think that I discarded the head tuft, but I’m not entirely sure. The Espeon ear tufts look more like Espeon tufts in the current version though. Ohhhhhh now I actually see he has those Soileon tufts on his ears as well! Oh dang I’ve totally forgotten about those. Welp, the current design doesn’t have them either.

I could have talked about the FSM himself in this too, but this is getting long and I need to rest my arms. So maybe another time.