#gym leader Pryce

[grey822aaa]

Ice

[jadeazora]

Today's TCG art features older guys and their Pokemon.

We also have a low-res look at Rika's and Cyclizar's art rares.

And oops. (A new PokéPiece comic via the PokeTimes Twitter. Pichu ends up coming back tho, crashing back down onto Piplup.)

[kazu-le-dork]

I am resident old people enjoyer

[inbarfink]

[spacefinch]

Alignment charts for the Johto crew, part 1:

[gehtsis]

felt inspired by this post from @ghostmolars so i made some of my own because its like 5:50pm and im bored as shit

[pkmndaisuki]

And here's all eight Gym Leader Scenes, featuring their Pokémon!

Falkner at the Trainer's School

Bugsy apprenticing with Kurt

Whitney at the Haircut Brothers

Morty at the Burned Tower

Chuck at the Cianwood shore

Jasmine at Moo Moo Farm

Pryce on the rooftops of Mahogany

Clair at the Dragon's Den

Being able to do these one a day has been a wild challenge but I'm proud of what I've managed to make here

[time-travelers-tournament]

Alas,the Vote have been cast and the official winners of round one are:

Miraidon/koraidon(pokemon)

Chara(Undertale)

Celebi(pokemon)

John eggbert(Homestuck)

Sorin sprocket(ace attorney)

Link(the legend of Zelda)

Rei/akari(pokemon)

Oswald(Fnaf:fazbear frights)

Marty McFly(back to the future)

And subway master ingo!

Now,to announce the matchups for the next round:

Millenniummon(Digimon) vs Kim possible(Kim possible)

Jack(the magic treehouse) vs frisk(Undertale)

Claire foley(professor Layton) vs giga monty(astral spiffs stream of Fnaf:sb)

Rabbit noir/adrien agreste(mlb) vs may(pokemon)

Alphamon(Digimon) vs pryce(pokemon)

Blaze the cat(sonic the hedgehog) vs Annie(the magic treehouse)

Missile(ghost trick) vs professor turo/sada real(pokemon)

Dialga(pokemon) vs silver the hedgehog(sonic the hedgehog)

Terapagos(pokemon) vs Pennybug(miraculous ladybug)

Sissel(ghost trick) vs professor turo/sada(pokemon)

Screwdriver(astral spiffs stream of Fnaf:sb) vs the flowey/asriel(undertale)

Feel free to submit propaganda!

[pokemas-conversation-repository]

[underground-boss-clay]

Tell me all about your lore for Pryce. I just finished the GSC Adventures manga chapter last week and I'm intrigued.

((WELP TIME TO TAKE A CROWBAR TO THAT PARTICULAR BOX, SORRY PANDORA BUT WE BUSTIN' THIS WIDE OPEN--))

((Going to put it under a read more because this is gonna get long, detailed and contain spoilers up to the GSC chapters of Adventures.))

So firstly, to get the big weird one out of the way: I have NO IDEA why the manga characterized Pryce the way they did. In literally NOWHERE ELSE will you get "takes over Team Rocket to grab Celebi" from this old man. Hell, the need to make ANOTHER Team Rocket villain when Giovanni is STILL ALIVE boggles the mind.

But so this gives us the question: how do you balance the idea of the Masked Man with his usual in-game depiction of "stern but cares about you" grandpa?

My answer? Batman.

Let me elaborate:

Before Red goes in and defeats Giovanni, Team Rocket is everywhere, and I do mean everywhere, in Kanto. On top of that, the manga even has Gym Leaders like Surge, Koga and Blaine working as members of Team Rocket. Now I don't think this means they all joined willingly--heck, my idea for Koga is that Team Rocket forced him to join by holding Janine hostage--but if the idea of a criminal organization having members in essentially government/leadership positions sounds like some Batman comics where he was fighting the Mafia instead of one of his rogue's gallery? Yeah, I picked up on that too.

When we see Team Rocket in GS/HGSS, it's three years after they've been disbanded. Considering that they were well situated in Kanto by the time RGB/FRLG happens, you would think in-universe (because we know irl it was more "shit wait we get to make a SEQUEL???") they'd be able to cross the border more easily. UNLESS someone was sabotaging their attempts to sneak across the border or bribe/persuade Johto officials. And who better than a Gym Leader of Johto, and an experienced one at that?

Putting this all in a more protagonist light also recolors Will, Karen, Green and Silver's inclusion, because as we all know, Batman also adopted kids. In this case however, Pryce would want to minimize the involvement of his wards in his vigilante work. He's canonically a grandfather after all, so keeping kids safe would be a high priority of his.

Now obviously there are way too many "Masked Men" characters in Pokémon. However, Pryce isn't actually bat-themed either (that would be Koga). So I took some liberties to redesign the outfit and give it a new name.

[grey822aaa]

Lol they are not old now

Blaine is tanned

[jadeazora]

Grusha being like, "Oh great. These two trying to start something with me too." But Brycen and Pryce mostly just give him some life advice and encouragement. (Grusha choosing not to return to snowboarding seems more like a psychological issue for himmore than a physical one, at least that's the sense I'm getting from this.)

[absolllite]

compilation of pokespe map parts i completed over the summer

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[spacefinch]

Johto crew alignment charts, part 2: