#pmd bittercold

[malumphoenixsart]

F A I L U R E! The prequel to my snowgrave ~ fatal post I made on my main a while back. Faith: The Unholy Trinity armirite?

[muffinlovingbirb]

Tales of Dungeons and Starvation

[eggchjf]

apparently Pokemon in the PMD world are so Pure and Inherently Good (tm) that they can't handle having Bad Feelings (tm) bc it always coalesces into a big scary world-destroying abomination

[fujii-draws]

pmd 3 is so good. something that really gets to me is how much hydreigon balances out the nihilistic view the other characters hold. dont get me wrong, partner Also has this role but it's especially present in hydreigon. in a bery nihilistic every man for himself type world, hydreigon's boundless kindness is so incredibly refreshing. gates strikes a very delicate balance, one that both hydreigon and partner are absolutely necessary for keeping.

OH YEAH NO ABSOLUTELYYYY. At some points I was kinda scared the Doom-and-Gloom speech was gonna be repeated over and over (Don’t get me wrong I really liked Gurdurr and especially Virizion’s) but I think if we got Munna���s speech earlier on/Partner n Hydreigon were also sad to an extent, it would’ve dampened the mood/overused and overstayed its welcome. Those two are absolutely vital for balancing the game 😭 if anything Partner’s false hope regarding Hero staying made me more emotional than Munna’s speech.

[defendglobe]

pretty sure this is payback for teasing emolga and virizion in the GTI epilogue

[cringywhitedragon]

Back to some of my fan PMD story, the WoTW/final boss will have some intermissions where the protag will face against some of the previous PMD final bosses whom are revealed to be Fragments of the Will and are guarding its First form in little intermission segments

The overview for context: https://www.tumblr.com/cringywhitedragon/745878290444713984/just-going-to-drop-this-here-but-heres-pok%C3%A9mon?source=share

(Also Darkrai now as a motivation because contrasting universe personalities)

They are as follows:

“The Puppet of Nightmares/Shadow Darkrai/Nightmare Fragment”: A Pokémon cast aside by others for their powers to trap others within never ending nightmares, lured by the Will with the promise to enact revenge on those who wronged them by shrouding the world in darkness and embedded with a fragment of its power. The fragment returned to the Will and fights on using the memories and body of its former host.

“The Fragment of Chilling Despair/Bittercold”: Born from the collective depression and hopelessness pokemonkind felt after the worlds were divided. Its winds of despair drove all those who were captured in its gale insane with negative emotions until its destruction but fights on in its original form.

“The Fragment of Growing Darkness/Dark Matter”: The largest fragment of the Will of the Worlds born from the negative emotions of Pokemon and possibly the closest thing to the Will’s very own wraith given a physical form. All it seeks is destruction until it was accepted by pokemonkind and absorbed back into the Will, now without any ability to think and feel, once again one with the universe.

These are intermissions that kinda work like Omega Flowey and upon defeating all three makes the WoTW vulnerable. Damage it enough times and it’s onto phase 2, aka it’s true body (or Host to put it more precise).

Universe Incarnate Novatta, or simply Will Novatta.

These “rematches” are much weaker then their original incarnations and do have some changes: The Fragment using Darkrai as an avatar does not use illusions and gains an entirely new arsenal of weapons and Dark Matter only has one form.

A fourth fragment does exist but is destroyed prior to the fight as it possesses The Spector, aka the WoTW’s second in command.

[nucleon-artistry]

Imagining the Treasures of Ruin in a PMD context!

This time as servants/creations/aspects of Dark Matter, and entirely subservient to them.

Chi-Yu gets cool black/purple shadowy fire effects.

Ting-Lu’s bowl gets a bit of a tweak, and now seems overflowing with negative emotions

Wo-Chien represents the corruption of the Tree of Life, it being mostly void shadow stuff wearing the visage of dead leaves from said tree

Chien-Pao’s design takes after Bittercold (who I believe is the same character as DM)

[scribz-ag24]

For the PMD asks:

3. Which final boss and/or final dungeon do you like the most (whether from a narrative or gameplay perspective)?

9. Are there any soundtracks you think are underrated or overlooked, or are there unused tracks you wish were in the game?

12. If you could change one thing about your favourite game(s), what would it be?

3. Hmmm, the one I'm most attached too is probably Primal Dialga in se5, although it feels a bit like cheating bc it's an expansion of the main story, so it kinda builds off the story of the main game + the great story in se5 xD. However, despite not having played gates, I think the Bittercold is the best "villain" of the series, I think it works amazingly as a final boss for that story (although Black Matter's final phase song is MWAH)

9. I don't really have any obscure favourites, but I think Aegis Cave gets a bit too much hate bc of the dungeon it's attached to, it's a certified bop imo. I do think gates and super's ost are bound to be a bit underrated if only bc of the drop of popularity of those games compared to the DS entries.

12. This is pretty similar to what you answered i think, bc I think the biggest flaw in explorers is the clunky dialogue it has sometimes, especially with partner repeating your name again and again, which is made worse by large amount of flashbacks.

Also, in Super Mystery Dungeon i would change the pacing of the second half/redistribute a bit the pertinent information for the final twist, bc, as it is, it takes away a lot of the feeling of the ending by having most of it consist in exposition of why the twist is happening. The ending still hits hard, don't get me wrong, and i get the sudden shock is part of what intends to make you feel overwhelmed and powerless, but it makes the ending feel a bit more "rational" than emotional.

[eldragon-x-moved]

isat spoilers, i cant spoilertag this or else the votes are going to be biased

can you tell i like pokemon mystery dungeon

[driftingballoons]

hii! 5 and 15 for the pmd ask game :>

5. now that’s a hard one, but I’m actually leaning towards super with the Dark Matter. I feel like they kind of took the idea of the Bittercold from gates and improved upon it. At the time I didn’t really care for the main villain being a conceptual entity vs an actual individual, but in time the idea’s grown on me. The way they characterized the Dark Matter is really interesting—in the end, it’s not an innately malevolent being, but rather a normal part of life that can be dealt with, even if it will inevitably return. Can really feel the parallels with real life, and how, even though one may have emotions they don’t care for, they are a part of being alive, and ultimately need to be accepted in order to be managed. 

15. heehee Grovyle my friend Grovyle :3 the lizard contains multitudes. He’s just so cool and strong and caring yet also reckless and a bit stupid but by Arceus he has a job to do and he’s not gonna let a little thing like the entire plan going to shit immediately stop him. 

[front-facing-pokemon]

I just found this blog so I'm jumping aboard the plushie bandwagon.

First we got Absol. (i feel like maybe i should've taken a closer-up picture but it's the face sooo)

Then a Wooloo

And, saving best for last, this Leafeon plush I own... of which I swear on my life is official merch.

I also have some more eeveelutions (plus an eevee and a few more) but: 1. I didn't want to send too many. 2. Eeveelutions are more popular so I wanted to give some other people the chance to submit their own. 3. I don't know where my Pikachu and Snivy plushies are cuz I own too many stuffed animals.

Only reason I submitted Leafeon was so I could show off this ~masterpiece~ of a plushie I own. And it's face isn't the only thing wrong with it too lol. Also I just noticed I accidentally had one of the ears hanging back but I'm too lazy to go take another photo but i hope this amuses you nonetheless.

ALRIGHT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF YOU AS I'VE BEEN OUT WITH MY FAMILY FOR CHRISTMAS HUH

let's start with these guys. beautiful. wonderful. i do not believe that that leafeon is official merch. this statement is baffling to me. welcome to the front-facing pokémon family. i love the eyes on that absol and wooloo is one of my faves. i was rather obsessed with it when it first came out and have a whole wooloo tag on my main blog because of it. though i guess i cleared that whole thing out recently so i don't anymore

let's get the nose ratings out of the way:

↑ this is a lie. 10/10 chespin

it's very wide and also 10/10 you're being too harsh. merry day to you too

circular face indeed. did i already post this one? if i did you can have it again

clodsire be upon ye. clodsire fans this is your treat until gen 9

this is a trend now. i think tumblr just crunched this image to hell for some reason so here's what the text says:

"Felt like joining the others for front facing pokeplushies [images] I have more pokemon but its early morning and these are the plushies that are easy to access"

i have not but i imagine "a moment" has long passed by now. my apologies but apparently today was an important day or something? idk

YEAH it's super unbelievably fucked up. i think i kinda remember the circumstance being a bit dire so everyone else was more worried about either 1. protagonist getting stomped on brutally or 2. saving the world from kyurem / the bittercold. i was totally under the impression that he was dead in that moment but i guess the characters may have known that he would just come back? i seem to vaguely remember partner being surprised that he came back and being like "but we watched you die :OOO" but maybe i'm misremembering that. i do create a lot of pmd lore on my own time so i have a hard time telling the difference between canon and fanon sometimes

two a day makes the world go round! this blog started when i started college, paused for 80% of my college career and now has started back up and i just graduated college a week ago. i would say "how time flies" but it has been a very, very long year

i've said it before and i'll say it again: gen 6 is my favorite gen, so you'll be seeing lots of favor for this gen from me in the tags i'm sure. maybe gen 6 is my excuse to start doing other things here. like that stream i keep talking about

if they put meloetta as a little obscure puzzle thang in sv, i'm sure they'll do something for genesect. i hope. at least for keldeo probably. genesect i'm not sure is very popular, unfortunately, outside of the tumblr crowd. if the general public's opinion on genesect is favorable, then maybe

okay and then i tried to scroll down further in my screenshots for more asks and saw the wobbly will smith in a hospital bed Gimme a Hug, Man that i copied from the "i get a little bit genghis kanghis" post so that's it. to everyone who christmases: merry it. it is today. although it's basically over by now so! merry boxing day for tomorrow if i don't say anything tomorrow. but i probably will. now i'm gonna go queue up today's 'mons because i haven't done it yet today. see you all in a few weeks when those post

[fortuneravine]

For the pmd splatoon au have you done Off The Hook yet? Also curious your ideas for what pokemon some of the villains would be?

i haven't done if the hook yet i'm sorry women... i have yet to think of suitable pokemon for them i have literally no ideas

villains though. octavio is an octillery that one's easy.

tartar i'd have to think about. that guy kinda only works in splatoon setting idk how to transfer it to a different one

mr grizz has to be a human i think. either human turned ursaluna or just a straight up actual human in pokemon world. i have a couple vague ideas for grizz + the rotm plotline but i don't wanna say anything concrete for him yet

i have no idea how i could make side order work in a pmd setting but hypothetically order would be a bittercold/dark matter type Abtract Concept Orb final boss. actually now that i think about it. order as dark matter/a similar force would go kinda hard

[legrandefungus]

The 4 in the morning fugus thoughts:

I wonder what would happen if the premise I attached to my EoS AU was given to the other PMD games? Where someone with knowledge on the game enters it and takes it VERY poorly, everything somewhat getting worse from there. The story deviating more and more as the Hero changes things.

I'm thinking it's an interesting thought!

I'm not too well-versed on Red and Blue Rescue Team, but! Gengar's a time bomb, A.C.T. is a time bomb. Everyone around them could lead to that triggering event where the Hero and the Partner are hunted down by everyone. At the same time, they would have to befriend Gengar enough without tipping him off that they know the truth. Though, at least the plan is simple: Get Rayquaza to deal with the meteor whilst having an exit plan from the netherworld. Of course, with how things are, it's always better to have a backup plan. Even if they get a bit dangerous, they just need to get to Rayquaza.

Now, admittedly, I barely have any knowledge of Gates to infinity. However, reading a plot synopsis gives a few braincells. Struggling on whether to dance around the main point. But most of all? Being so completely unphased by the effects of Bittercold on everyone. It's not like humans act much different on a day to day basis. I'm sure Hydreigon would be quite confused about the Hero. Being unaffected by the increasing hostility through the mundanity of normal life. The horrors will come along, people will fight and layoffs will happen. But that will pass, and time continues going; food still needs to be made, and the dishes still need to be cleaned.

Now, Super Mystery Dungeon is something I've played to completion. Therefore, I can say with 100% confidence that it would be an extreme tightrope of information management. The Hero knows who all the players are and is split on what to do. It's not like there's a safety net, the game opens with Nuzleaf and the Beheeyem. The Hero lives in the same house with him for the first part of the game. There's actually a bit of an opposite issue here than with Explorers of Sky: There's too many options on where to go. Theoretically, the Hero could go straight for the Tree of Life, as they would know exactly where Dark Matter is. Of course, this is unfeasible, as it's instead locked behind several conditions here and there. At the same time, they already know that everyone around them is a lie. Their friend is Mew and will be the one to disappear; Nuzleaf and Espurr will betray them, the former returning for a difficult fight. Not to mention how many more Pokémon there are in PSMD. There're missions where they talk to Pokémon or meet someone in a cafe, can't let anything slip. At the same time, they have to convince Ampharos of things, and go to as many lategame dungeons as possible for high quality items. Sparkling tiles galore leads to high amounts of stat-boosting items, which means a greater chance that the both of them can make it to Dark Matter at the end.

I'm sure there's more to this, but am a bit eepy so I'm stoppin it there.

Apologies for the rambling format. It's nearly 5 in the morning as I'm about to post this.

Also if yall got anything to add, feel free to reblog this and attach some braincells of yer own!

[lovepmd]

I've always had the silly little headcanon that the "canon" PMD protagonists were the same as the main series protagonist of that generation, which is why they've basically disappeared from the main series.

Rescue Team's protag is actually the rival from the Hoenn games (who I'm pretty sure is canonically May, but my memory is a bit fuzzy on that), which is why they lack confidence in their ability to save the world.

Explorer's protag is Dawn, with the original gen 4 version of her going to PMD while her remake counterpart goes to Hisui.

Gate's protag is Hilbert, which is why he disappeared for several years, with no one, being able to find him despite him supposedly leaving to find N, which would probably have been noticed by someone since he's the newest champion and the hero of the week and all that. He was busy with the Bittercold.

Super's protag is Serena, with her rival (don't remember his name) probably going to the new Legends game instead.

(The specific protags used are taken from what is said in Masters EX, which I haven't played but is apparently somewhat canon and apparently confirms which protagonists are canon to the main series. What's said in that game might conflict with this headcanon, i don't know, but I'd say that could probably be explained by the fact that we don't really know when everything happens, so maybe Master's partly-canon plot happens before everyone gets isekai'd.)

oooooooooOOOOOOO

i like this a lot

and I was thinking about Masters before I got to the end where you mentioned Masters lol, cuz it does seem like the protag is a separate person that's not any of the ones that show up in the game, the only one being Rei as the canon protag of legends arceus

but I like this idea a lot!!!!

[eldritch-omen]

I feel like I should make more characters in my main pkmn gijinka/PMD fuckin thing idek universe that survived the universe where bittercold won (i only have 5 rn, only one of which isn't legendary)

But also they're supposed to be rare

But also ice typeswaps.... Grrrrrrrr

Anyways every single one of them has a modified version (to make them actual moves and not just. 💥unused 1, 2, and 3) of one of bittercold's moves aside from the terapagos and I'm gonna share them bc i just think they're neat and maybe other people can also use them who knows

All moves

•are classified as physical/special by highest stat

•Does not make contact

•Affected by Protect

•Not Affected by Snatch

•Not affected by Magic Coat

•Not affected by Mirror Move

•Not affected by Counter/Mirror Coat

•Can not be Sketched or Transformed onto another pokemon

Snow illusion (💥Unused 1)

Type- Ice

Base power- 60

Accuracy- 95

Damages one enemy adjacent to the pokemon (one enemy within 2 tile radius of the pokemon) with a 100% chance to cause confusion and a 50% chance to cause burn, frostbite, frozen, or paralysis.

Oppressing winds (💥 Unused 2)

Type- Ice

Base power- 50

Accuracy-100

Attacks all enemies adjacent to the pokemon (all enemies within a 2 tile radius of the pokemon) and lowers their attack and special attack by one stage

Glacial drain (💥Unused 3)

Type- Ice

Base power- 70

Accuracy- 95

Damages all opponents on the field (in the room) and reduces the PP of all the moves of the pokemon hit by 3 each

Ye. Wanted the moves to feel stronger than your average strong move since they're imitating a boss but like up to current power creep standard ykyk

Also I made glacial drain and oppressing winds aoe just bc it felt right for my chars, feel free to disregard (and make drain's accuracy 100 prob) if desired. Since bitter's Bulbapedia page just gets moves from that one on one boss fight it obv wouldn't have aoes listed lol

[re-ikrmso]

this was inspired by many things mainly a fnf-mod called "Hypno's Lullaby" and someone's PMD fancomic called "Hope In Friends".

my own PMD story, except i tried to make it scary.

Don't bite off more than you can chew--you're still human all the same, twisted into a whimsical adventure.

if humans are immune to the bittercold even as pokemon, does that mean they're still not 100% pokemon? what does that mean for them then? are their bodies twisted and pulped into a small form? well here's the pmd au/story you never asked for. yes this is very self indulgent.

i will probably not write any stories and just give out like outlines. teehee.

UPDATE( yesterday i had a little fun talk with my friend. he suggested the name nyctophobia and i took up on it. as of now, this PMD is known as "PMD: nyctophobia".

oh and some story concepts. still a wip. i really wanted to connect motifs of a "pulse" and fire.