#oc: rowena blevins

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Rather than dark and edgy reinterpretations, I’ll always opt for the idea that the Pokemon world is a kinder, fairer, more just and equitable world than our own....but even so, academic slapfights and social media discourse will always bring out the worst in people.

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I always say someday I’ll draw portraits for all of my Pokemon OCs but I do so at such a glacial pace that I just keep trying to improve my portraits of the same five characters once their old art hurts to look at.

Anyway this is Rowena, my Diamond player character, who started with Turtwig. She has two sisters, one older and one younger, and they all have matching Gracidea tattoos. She and her older sister tangled with Team Galactic when they were young trainers, came face-to-face with more legendary Pokemon than you can count on one hand, and managed to keep the world from being destroyed. After a loss to the Elite Four as a teenager, Rowena quit being a full-time Pokemon Trainer and as of the present she’s a graduate student studying the myths and legends of Sinnoh. 

This is Storm, her younger sister, and Glynis, her older sister.

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Say, just curious. What exactly is Rowena's eye colour? Brown? Orangy brown? Red but you're a coward? :v

Bucket how dare you accuse 10-year-old me of being a coward in OC design. Her eye color is amber*, thank you very much!

*Strictly speaking, that doesn’t answer the brown/orangy-brown question, because looking at just a sample size of three pieces of amber jewelry I have, the colors range from brown to brown-orange to orange-brown. (Not to mention white amber and green amber, which are also included in my jewelry collection**, but those have the color modifiers so we’re not mentioning them.) Rowena’s eye color would fall on the orange-brown end of the spectrum, but not quite bright orange enough to be described as simply “orange”. 

** “Roddy why do you have so much amber jewelry?” Because I went on study abroad a month in Poland and went absolutely ham jewelry shopping because I’ve been obsessed with amber as a color and concept and quasi-gemstone since I was 10 years old and could make an OC whose eye color could be described as “amber”, duh, next question.

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Coloring with sharpie is fun

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Rowena: “I don’t need anyone to validate me! I know my own worth!”

Professor Rowan, who has known her since she was a baby, who has known her father and her family forever, who has seen her in all the stages of her life from bratty child to sullen teen to a very smart and stubborn young woman: “I understand that and I’m glad for that but. That’s. That’s how you get a PhD. The committee has to evaluate you. And decide. You can’t just decide for yourself. You have to. to present. to the committee.”

Rowena: “Sounds super lame.”

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I promised I’d do this, and I have: an old meme, featuring most of my Pokemon OCs, and some rivals/NPCs who have featured prominently in the fics I wrote back when I was.....13.

The only two OCs not here are Toshiro (because even after 8 years I still haven’t figured out what he looks like) who would be “laughs nervously”, and Marie (who’s kind of detached from everyone else here and who I’ve only ever drawn once anyway) who would be yet another “YEET”.

I originally wasn’t going to include N here because Gen 5 is kinda when the games started giving us more than bare-bones characterization that I could run with in any direction (which is what I’ve done with rivals Blue and Silver, and Champion Lance) but since I was leaving out Toshiro (who’s from Unova) I figured I might as well include the other Unova boy, since I can draw N in five minutes flat from memory anyway, it’s not like it required any effort on my part to include him.

Now that I have portraits for all most of these idiots, I could do a proper intro post for them. Or I could just continue to only meme. Both sound good.

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Some Pokémon OC doodles since I keep getting battered by the waves of nostalgia for these kids. Rowena, Zoe, Zeke, and some random Bulbasaur, none of these three even have Bulbasaur, why.

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you ever in the mood to draw something fake-symbolic with your OCs 

I couldn’t decide which was better, I like the second composition of her having wings more but I spent too long drawing the Honchkrow in my initial idea to not post it.

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every middle school has that one delinquent kid whose posture is so bad that they’re basically rubber

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randomly in a mood to do stuff with some of my Pokemon OCs so here’s aesthetic boards for two of the three Blevins sisters, Storm and Rowena.

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Sinnoh kids, prompt: Going Feebas-fishing. The ‘tiles change every day’ thing is just adding insult to injury RIP.

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LISTEN I do not have time to tell you now about me and my brother’s adventures in Feebas fishing but we did a fucking LOT of it 

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 “I get the feeling you’re not taking this seriously,” Rowena said, reeling in her line with a sigh to find that once again the bait had been nibbled away without her notice. 

 Storm blinked at her several times in rapid succession before dramatically placing her hand to her chest and asking, “Me? Never!” She picked up another block of bait and threw it as far as she could. Her Floatzel yapped and plunged back into the water to race after it. Rowena’s Weavile, curled asleep between two stalagmites near one of the cave walls, opened one eye to glare. 

 “You’re disturbing the fish,” Rowena said. She waved her Gastrodon back over to her and settled on its back. “I’m going somewhere else where you’re not scaring off all the Feebas.” 

“They probably aren’t even here!” Storm shouted after her. The sound echoed around the damp mountain interior. “They’re probably hiding! Or sleeping!”

Rowena did not dignify her with a reply and Storm pouted on the shore for a few minutes, trying and failing to skip rocks across the water while her Luxray snorted at her in laughter. “Hey, where’s Glyn?” she asked suddenly. She looked around. Her oldest sister was nowhere in sight and the only Pokémon surrounding her were hers and Rowena’s. “Glynis?” she called into the silence. “Glynis? Oi! Ro! Where’s Glyn?” Silence. She frowned. “Hey Tempest c'mon,” she said to her Floatzel. The Pokémon flopped belly-first back into the water, waiting for Storm to adjust herself securely on its back before it raced off across the water in search of Rowena.

Seeing Storm, she sighed and tossed her glossy hair over her shoulder. “What?” she snapped. “Where’s Glyn?” 

“Where’s the nearest cave painting? Find it and she shall appear.” 

Storm didn’t know it was possible to make the motion of reeling in a fishing line sarcastic, but Rowena managed it impressively. “I don’t think you’re leaving it in long enough before you pull it back in,” Storm pointed out. 

Rowena’s eyes narrowed and she cast the line back out with unnecessary force. “And you’re not even fishing,” she said, which was true. 

“Hey!” From near the ceiling of the cavern, Glynis appeared, camera around her neck and notebook tucked under an arm. She wore a large smile as she waved and began to pick her way down the stone slope to the water. “How’s the fishing going?” 

“Worse than it looks like your exploring is going,” Storm said. Glynis sloughed her bag off of her shoulder onto the ground and extracted her fishing rod from it. 

“I thought I’d seen that particular painting before, but I hadn’t,” she explained, dropping the end of her line in the water. “I took a sample of the paint and the stone so we can date it and see when it originates. The Mount Coronet murals all use similar motifs but there are a few distinct eras. We’re working on classifying them and analyzing the actual art to see if there’s any themes that distinguish a particular group - oh!” She had pulled her line back up from the water and checked the ball containing the bait to find a Feebas. “Look!” she exclaimed, her proud grin reappearing. 

Rowena threw her hands in the air, dropping her rod, and with a plop it sank out of sight. “I have been on this lake for hours, and you show up and don’t even try and you - ugh!” 

“Are you going to get the rod back?” Storm asked, pointing down into the lake. “No. I quit. I’m done. I’m done.” 

“If you quit everything because someone’s better at it that you, you won’t have many options for anything to do,” Storm said. 

Rowena stared at her like a wild animal considering whether to take the challenge of chasing down prey larger than it, and without looking away she peeled off her boots and socks, hurled them across the lake at Glynis, and slipped off her Gastrodon’s back into the water. 

“I was going to ask Floatzel to get it!” Storm yelled at the water after her. 

“I was going to give her the Feebas,” Glynis said, staring in confusion at the ripples in the water where their sister disappeared. 

A few moments later Rowena emerged, flipping her hair out of her eyes. “Anyone have goggles?” she asked.

“Anyone have a change of clothes?” Glynis asked. “You’re not going to want to walk home in wet jeans.” 

“I do,” Storm said. She had been the only one to foresee the eventuality of one of them shoving the others in the lake. 

From the look on Rowena’s face, she clearly did not know how to weigh which was worse: walking back out of the mountain in wet clothes or wearing whatever neon hell that Storm packed.

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This is.....criminally stupid, but I think it might be at least a little funny for anyone who doesn’t know the characters so here it is.

Storm and Brook announce they’re dating to their older sisters, and god damn do these two families have to make a production out of absolutely fucking everything god can’t we just have brunch in fucking peace.

Storm, Rowena, and Glynis (the black haired girls) are mine, and Brook, Stacey, and Jenny are @scattereddreamer‘s.

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Been in a Pokemon mood lately and had these sketches sitting around to line and color. Here’s the Sinnoh Garbage Sisters: Glynis, Rowena, and Storm. Glyn and Storm take more after their mom, while Ro more resembles her dad.

It really weirds me out when I think about how Glyn and Ro have existed in some form for a full actual entire decade now.

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I’ve had some of these characters for a decade. It was probably inevitable that things started spiraling desperately out of control like this.

So! Anyway. I don’t talk about my Pokemon OCs much, but I love them, and thus have created this massive overwhelming chart to throw into the void without any more context on any of these characters, most likely thus leaving you, the viewer, with many questions, unless you just scrolled right past it because it hurt your eyes, which I wouldn’t be able to blame you for honestly. I tried to at least categories the different types of OCs I have - there’s the ones based on the characters I played the games with, there’s ones based on the unused other protagonist design that I didn’t pick (e.g. Red, Ethan, Toshiro), there’s ones who are rivals who I’ve expanded on (e.g. Zeke, Silver), there’s ones who are NPCs/Gym Leaders/Elite Four/Whatever who I’ve expanded on (e.g. Daisy, Clair, Lance, N…) – let’s be real, Pokemon is pretty thin on characterization, it’s definitely getting better but it’s thin and so once I get my hands on an NPC, the amount I put into developing them is enough that I count them as a sort-of-OC. I haven’t actually done anything with the Alola trio, but I had to include them since I was including Marisol.

I was also going to include colors for “BFFs” (e.g. Piper and Zeke, Red and Lance, Marisol and Hau and Lillie) and “BFFs Whether You Want To Be Or Not” (e.g. Ethan and Silver, Marisol and Gladion, Everyone and Clair) but I think this is horrifying and complicated enough, honestly. 

The asterisk on Sinnoh is because there are many other OCs in that group, but they’re not mine, and don’t have any ties to anyone outside of Sinnoh, but I’m gonna make a separate chart for Sinnoh.

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Since I’ve been thinking bout my Pokemon OCs, I was also thinking about how something that tends to be beyond my drawing expertise is “making characters who are family resemble each other in a way that is more than ‘same hair same skin tone’”, and how I’ve wanted to practice avoiding that with Silver and Rowena, who are brother and sister but have very different coloration, so I can’t just lazily shorthand it. 

I’ll admit, I cheated a little lot by doodling one basic sketch and then altering details, like the jaw and chin and cheekbones, but like, gotta start somewhere aND WHEN DID IT GET TO BE 11 PM. See if I hadn’t cheated it woulda just taken me longer and I wasn’t gonna go to bed until I finished it, so really, this is good for us all. But seriously, gotta start somewhere.

I…think? if you took the hair away on the lineart, it’d be clear that they’re different people, but related? I shoulda made a comparison without the hair. Damn, I’ll do that tomorrow.

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some random OC doodles: Silver x2, Rowena, Zofia