#fakemon bridanggal

[asocialmoth]

Oh look, it's the Fakemon I've finally gotten around to posting!

Sampanggal (Ghost/Flying) and Bridanggal (Ghost/Flying) is already familiar to this blog. They are the signature Pokemon of my gym leader OC, Frills. This line is also among my oldest Fakemon I've designed and still care about. They are based on the Manananggal, a creature from Filipino mythology that I for some reason got attached to when I first heard of them. During the night, Manananggal detach their upper torsos from the bottom and grow wings. They prey on newlyweds, newborns, and fetuses, and that's why I themed them around weddings. If Bridanggal is a bride, then my thought process was its pre-evolution would be a flower girl. The flower Sampanggal is based around is the Sampaguita which is the national flower of the Philippines, and I think that reason alone is why I chose it cause I decided to recheck what flowers are used for Filipino weddings and the Sampaguita barely comes up in the webpages I found.

In the night, this line preys primarily on Pokemon eggs, although it does eat already hatched Pokemon and berries as well (Sampanggal particularly prefers berries as they're easier to eat). During the day, they hide within caves or other dark places. The Bridanggal's veil is different depending on the ability it has. Uh honestly I haven't nailed down which abilities yet though.

Catersquint (Bug) and Chitopti (Bug/Psychic) were inspired by how butterflies/moths have eyespots on their wings, basically fake eyes that scare or confuse predators. Masquerain is also based around this concept and that's why it has Intimidate but I wondered what it would be like if the eyes on these types of wings were real.

All eyes on Chitopti work independently and uses Psychic abilities to fall slower needing less flaps or do more elegant maneuvers to take advantage of its eyes. Despite them being eyes, they are covered with hard material to keep them from being easily damaged or hurt. Also Catersquint is actually blind except on its front eye which is short-sighted.

Myelanket (Poison), Scarnvier (Poison/Electric), and Saltarings (Poison/Electric) are based on neurons, myelin sheaths, and saltatory conduction. They were originally Psychic instead of Poison since I was thinking about them the same way as the Solosis line plus the fact that they're neurons, but realized that since they interact and battle with neurotransmitters which are chemicals, Poison seemed a better fit.

Anyways, myelin sheaths basically insulate neurons and lets electricty move faster by "jumping" through them to the spaces in between them (known as Nodes of Ranvier). I thought making them into scarves and blankets were a good idea because of that, though I'm not super sure about if rings were the next logical evoulution. Regardless, even if they are I feel like the execution of Saltaring's design isn't the best and subject to future redesign.

Germibuoy (Grass/Water), Aydrofyte (Grass/Water), Bulaquatic, and Lumilypad (Grass/Flying) honestly exists just because I was amused by how flying in Filipino, "lumilipad", sounds like lily pad, and I like puns. No proper digital illustration for them, I felt like I really should be saving my art time for Art Fight and drawing another full line would take some time, plus the extra sketches were cute I think. Honestly I think the line is self-explanatory, however I will note that despite being the reason the line exists in the first place, I'm not super satisfied with Lumilypad's design, particularly the wings. If I had time to digitalize this I would've probably improved it, but for now I wouldn't say its too bad.

[asocialmoth]

Does anyone else have that one OC that they keep redesigning?

Posting another "definitive" Frills redesign again.

This one took me a while to complete. I had already completed the original sketch some time ago but the motivation to actually digitalize it was staggered by the thought of having to color everything. I'm probably just doing something wrong and that's why I find it unfun but hey at least its done now. On the other hand while I don't think its perfect I enjoyed doing the shading.

Anyways to comment on the design itself, I ditched the witch theme entirely and leaned on a wedding theme to match with her partner Pokemon. The dress might get further changes in the future when I get better a dresses and patterns. Its supposed to be based on a baro't saya even though it doesn't really look like them other than the panuelo. Eh there's always the next redesign.

Frills and the Bridanggal's lore from the last design I posted is still the same but I have expanded it too. For one, her Bridanggal's (Top left is my original Fakemon if you aren't familiar with everyone) nickname is Beatrice. Other than the linked post I've actually mentioned before that Bridanggal are Ghost/Dragon types, but now I've decided its Ghost/Flying. The Pokemon depicted in the art are basically her main team when fighting at her best or against gym challengers with 8 badges. Also in case anyone wonders, yes I know Klefki isn't a ghost.