#newbarkshipping

[windlylink]

After long hiatus

[flightlessribbons]

More alcohol marker drawings + some crackships I don't even know the shipping names for 🫡

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Thing

[mountmortar]

Very curious about your thoughts on newbarkshipping. How do you think they’d get together, or even how they met?

so the entire premise of newbarkshipping would have to hinge on the idea of gold and kris both growing up in new bark town since technically in the game one or the other wouldn't exist depending on who you chose as the player character. and actually since some events/dialogue/flavor text play out differently between gold/silver and crystal it isn't too hard to come up with the idea that they're both going on their journey at the exact same time they just keep missing each other by minutes or something LMAO. if you look through this blog or have been following me for a while you'll know about a running joke on here that gold's character sprite is constantly scowling because he keeps getting screwed over whereas the girls (kris and lyra) get all the cool shit (i.e. the dragon's den master offering the player a dratini in pokémon crystal/heartgold/soulsilver but not in the original gold/silver) so it honestly becomes wayyyy easier to imagine that they could be in the same world & just keep missing each other. somehow.

ANYWAY! i think newbarkshipping would follow along the lines of kris & gold actually not growing up with each other (what with them never meeting over the course of the games) and instead meeting after their main journeys are complete. and since i really do think it makes the most sense for kris to become the first leader of johto's battle tower i think it'd be fun if they met because gold battled his way to the top and challenged her there. and got his ass kicked. and then kept coming back until he became such a familiar face that they both finally ended up striking this friendly little rivalry with each other. the hilarity that would come of them discovering that they're both from new bark town is really funny to me actually. i imagine gold would be dropping in to visit his mom and would happen upon kris (who's dropping in to visit HER mom) and is just like 🫵YOU. and that's how they start hanging out and figuring out that. Hey. You Were That Other Kid Who Became Champion? You Also Beat Up Some Rocket Grunts? No Fucking Way... the idea that lance knows them both and kept being like "hey i know this strong trainer your age who'd probably love to train with you" and then kept forgetting to introduce them is really funny as well. i'm keeping this based strictly on gsc because i think a lot of what could potentially bring newbarkshipping together is the fact that they are both fundamentally Lonely Kids (prior to the existence of the hgss universe and the introduction of lyra, gold and kris were the only protagonists not to have some sort of neighbor/friend. instead they got. silver) but honestly implementing lyra as gold's friend would work too if you use the idea that maybe lyra moved to new bark town instead of being born there (since her grandparents live near goldenrod city). i like having lyra be the champion anyway so it works out.

i'm getting off-topic AGAIN okay so as for them getting together.....i don't think there would be like. a Defining Moment or anything like that. i think they would be friends for years and gold would finally convince kris to take a little travel trip with him because they're bros and when they come back people just start assuming they're together because they've gotten closer as a result of the trip and they just kind of. go with it. and then it actually Becomes that. and then kris is like don't think this means i'm sharing my position as leader of the battle tower with you though and gold is like (jokingly) aw damn and here i thought i could get it that way

[dunnluck]

Dawn has to deal with feelings that are still unknown to her, why is this all so complicated ?

[tyranitardude]

The Main Johto Fankid Triad.

Agate Hiryu (Ethan/Kris)

Mason Cortez (Silver/Lyra)

Jesse Kohls-Lester (Mondo/Chase)

[poshfather]

i wanted to draw my favorite pokemon pairings

[invisiblemelonmoose]

Unpopular Opinion:

Newbarkshipping is my number one NOtp. I just cannot ship it. It makes me unreasonably annoyed and angry whenever I see it or any iteration of it in other canons. I feel bad about it, but I just can’t get over the fact that Kris canonically can never meet Gold and meets Silver, but it’s so pervasive. I would rather ship SoulSilver or even Hunter over it (which seems to be another unpopular opinion in the realm of redemption/specialjewel shippers).

In terms of Johto-squad ships it goes

Redemption

NewReplacement

HeartSoul

SoulSilver

Hunter

and NewBark would be so far below, it’d be like the shitty “Do you love the color of sky?” post. No offense intended towards those who do ship it. I honestly feel really guilty about it, but I just do not care for it

[alphinia11]

So quick quiz Luckyshipping or Conflictshipping? Newbarkshipping or Heartsoulshipping? Fortuneshipping or Twinleafshipping? Ferriswheelshipping or ChessShipping? Visorshipping or Sequelshipping? Lonashipping or Selene x Hau? For the generations I didn’t mention cause they are kind of obvious. KalosShipping and Elio x Lille are pretty much canon.

-I like both Luckyshipping and Conflictshipping (I always called it oldrival, but basically the same thing I guess). Conflictshipping if I had to choose. 

-Newbarkshipping (Because soulsilvershipping for the win), although one of my favorite pokemon fics is actually a Heartsoulshipping.

-Fortuneshipping, for sure.

-Hm, probably Ferriswheelshipping, although I never got into gen 5. I could like either though I’m sure.

-Again, I’m not too sure because I’m not huge on gen 5, but I’m thinking maybe sequelshipping?

-Lonashipping definitely!!! Love them.

-YES to Kalosshipping and Elio x Lillie. 

I really need to write some oneshots for some of these ships. Some of them I REALLY like. If I’m being honest, Hoennshipping isn’t even my favorite pokemon game ship when we’re considering what we’re given just straight from the original content. Of course writing a detailed fanfic with expanding characters can skew things, though. Haha. 

[the-green-scorpion]

So quick quiz Luckyshipping or Conflictshipping? Newbarkshipping or Heartsoulshipping? Fortuneshipping or Twinleafshipping? Ferriswheelshipping or ChessShipping? Visorshipping or Sequelshipping? Lonashipping or Selene x Hau? For the generations I didn’t mention cause they are kind of obvious. KalosShipping and Elio x Lille are pretty much canon.

...uh...

[windlylink]

Another wave of shiposts

[flightlessribbons]

Dialogue transcript under the cut

Kris: *SIGH* AUGH- okay- I’ll just rewrite that…This is stupid- the program was working fine a few hours ago- I need my data from last week’s study…I can’t do this report without it…C’mon Kris.. You can do it. Just this report…Just finish this one…

Ethan: One more report and then what, Kris?

Kris: EEP- Gold? I thought you went home?

Ethan: I had some last minute stuff to finish - but YOU were supposed to heave hours ago.

Kris: Eeeh…I have a good reason…I think. 

Ethan: You were trying to get a headstart on next week’s work weren’t you?

Kris: Ah- how’d you know?

Ethan: Your hair’s in a ponytail- and you only do that when you’re trying to over achieve.

Kris: Ouch. I just felt like I was falling behind again. I think I was trying to distract myself with work.

Ethan: Mmhm.

Kris: -and I know it sounds silly, but…I almost lost to SIlver last week in a friendly battle and it's been bothering me. I don’t regret being Champion and a Professor, but I can’t help but feel like I’m not great at either one. So I…overworked myself to try and prove myself…to myself. 

Ethan: You don’t have to prove yourself to anyone…Whatever you choose to do, you do your best and that’s amazing! You don’t need to excel in everything for you to be worthwhile. You’re human. And deserve to rest and relax. Dad’s not gonna care about a slow report or two- he wouldn’t want his best employee all burned out. 

Kris: Thank you, Gold…

Ethan: Mm- Let’s go home, okay? I’ll make us some apicot tarts as a late night snack. Or heat up whatever’s in the fridge. One of those choices.

Kris: Both sound really good. What work were you finishing?

Ethan: Oh, nothing important. Just had to file some stuff Dad put in the wrong place, you know how he is. He did mention we had some mail delivered here. I totally forgot about it, could you grab it from the table?

Kris: Sure *?* Gold.

Ethan: Hm? Kris? What- is it the letters?

Kris: It’s… A RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY!!

[reestallized]

*pixelates them*

[mountmortar]

it's probably the deeply buried multishipper in me but i think newbarkshipping could be fun if done correctly (aka in a way that isn't just copy-and-pasted mangaquestshipping)