#scvi spoilers

[pkmndaisuki]

i wish we could've seen a group hug with the cathartic crying after surviving a near-death experience

[imfluentinfangirlandgay]

Has this been done yet

[unsanctitude]

pretty kitty

[pokekill-myself]

alright before i post the rest of the leaks from last night. I NEED TO TALK ABOUT MY FAVORITE POKEMON IN GEN 9

So to start Tinkatink

This little baby gets bullied by Meltan. You want to know how she deals with it? Evolves into Tinkatuff

she slaughters Pawniard and Bisharp to make a fucking hammer. Because she desires power and power she gets as Tinkaton

and Tinkaton hunt Corviknight (the really good Galarian regional bird) FOR SPORT! and if you look at that hammer you notice IT'S MADE OF CORVIKNIGHT! SO FUCKING METAL! GOD AND THEN THERE'S HER SIGNITURE MOVE! GIGATON HAMMER

It's a steel Giga impact except NO FUCKING SKIP A TURN RECHARGE!

[edgeanescence]

honestly though larry is so cool in terms of the more foreshadowing side of him

like at first he comes off like just the normal gym leader, whatever. you dont think too much about anything hes up to. then you get to the elite 4 reveal and suddenly... things make sense

he gives you the tm for facade. hes trying so hard to act like just some every day guy and not an elite 4 member by not loudly broadcasting it to the world.

he terastallizes his staraptor into the normal type, despite it already being normal in its normal/flying type. this is obviously to make it a pure normal type, a literal manifestation of his attempt at trying to be discreet about his elite 4 position as the flying type handler.

not only that, but his design reflects this as well with his tie. its harder to see in game, but in the key art its clearly sky blue with a little cloud pattern. the sky is usually associated with flying types, but because its a tie its super subtle and out of the way as a distinguisher. i suppose the button pattern on his suit sleeves could resemble feathers, and the black triangles on the lapels make the bottom pair seem like wings, but these are more loose conclusions for subtle details

like this shit is actually so good because you never think twice about these sorts of things until later in the game.. which is what good foreshadowing is all about. i appreciate this aspect of his character immensely

[magnetic-rose]

me five minutes into pokemon violet: director clavell is obviously the bad guy.

me five hours into pokemon violet: director clavell is my best friend, he’s my pal, he’s my homeboy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy.

[moons-now-seperate-art-blog]

Absolutely ecstatic about the Snivy line being available in Scarlet and Violet♡♡. Gonna spend an abnormal amount of time looking for a shiny girl as a callback to my very first starter.

[peachyymomo]

"too bad about the outcome though, huh...

ex-champion?"

[noblejanobii-art]

La creatura...

[pompompinkdandelions]

Top tier designs

[pkmndaisuki]

Terapagos is Not Friendly:

A Theory Before Indigo Disk is Released

So far, both the anime and Pokemon's social media have shown off Terapagos as this cute little turtle.

Definitely a friend-shaped, marketable plushie-looking thing, and it's shown to look out for Liko. Not much has been shown of its Terastal form, though. But in-game thus far, I don't think it's trying to help anyone.

If anything, it may be using humans to help itself.

Take this entry in the Scarlet/Violet book by Heath, a historian who led an expidition to The Great Crater of Paldea, a.k.a. Area Zero. He got separated from his exploration party, found unconscious, and with cryptic notes he apparently wrote but has no memory of.

Note what's drawn on the page most prominently: hexagons. The key shape associated with Terapagos.

Hexagons are brought up not only by Heath in the pages dedicated to Terapagos (seen here in the original manuscript his descendant Briar carries)...

...but also by the missing professor (Sada/Turo) in their notes in the research stations of Area Zero.

And in both Heath's expedition and the professor's studies, someone died. Heath mentioned in the chapter "Monsters of Area Zero" (the chapter Arven shows off in the climax of the story) that one of the crew was attacked by a Paradox Pokemon and was "mortally wounded". A similar phrasing is used by the AI professor about their deceased creator, saying, quote, "[their] physical body received grievous injuries" to describe the incident with the hostile Koraidon/Miraidon at Research Station 4.

The professor's story is incredibly tragic, in that they started out research out of curiosity with a team, a spouse, and while there had a son. And in one of the journals, the professor wants to live in, quote, "a paradise we three," likely themselves, their spouse, and Arven, "can live happily together forever." But by the end, they'd pushed everyone away and thought they could only rely on themselves, leading to the creation of an artificial double.

Both Heath and the late professor have had some kind of subconcious pull towards Area Zero, and witnessed Terapagos firsthand. Heath however was lucky that he and his team left before things could get any worse. And now, Heath's descendant, Briar, is drawn to Area Zero, wanting to study and find Terapagos too.

She's obsessed to the point of dressing like the cover of the book, same emblems on her jacket, and wearing bright scarlet/violet, as well as crystalline earrings shaped like the Tera symbol. She mentions several times that she hopes to recieve permission to enter Area Zero. And I don't think it'll end well for her. Not thinking that she or anyone else is gonna die, but she'll likely be in some life-threatening situation the player will have to drag her out of.

And going back to the anime, it wouldn't be the first time a legendary is shown as sympathetic there but not in their games. Take Darkrai - in the games it's known to plunge people into eternal nightmares and the only way to stave them off is with Cresselia's help to counter it. The Explorers Mystery Dungeon games go even further to show it as a sinister character, being the prime antagonist of the postgame.

Meanwhile, in the movie Rise of Darkrai, it's turned into a tragic figure, a defender and a hero. With it even getting revived from a heroic sacrifice and gets to live peacefully near people. A far cry from its games counterpart.

So I think that we players will first meet Terapagos as an enemy, a threat we have to take on in its full Terastal form, in order to save the day. Similar to the threat Rose releasing Eternatus posed in Sword and Shield, maybe, or how Cyrus unleashed Dialga/Palkia. Maybe Briar, in her obsession, will be the one to unleash Terapagos, and Terapagos will in turn try use her for its own ends, leading the player to save her from an unfortunate fate?

I don't know for certain. But with all that's led up to Indigo Disk, I don't trust Terapagos any further than I could throw it.

[fourphoenixfeathers]

I mentioned the spoilers. Well, here they are.

If organic pokemon can terastilize, I'm just gonna *vague hand waving* the thing that happened to the professors can happen to humans too. Under verrry specific circumstances. Those circumstances being that I'm evil.

Also, since Emmet spent a brief bit of time in the future, he gets a paradox mon! Meet Iron converter, the electric/water eelektross we all wanted. Unpopular opinion, I really like the glowy robot aesthetic of the future mons, so I leaned hard into that and based converter's concept off of hydroelectric generators. Quark drive is boring, raise her attack when she gets hit by a water type move!

Her name is whistle. :)

And a hypothetical shiny here! I don't like the silver with singular accent color, it's too plain, so I did my own thing.

[luxiomahariel]

what a weird choice of pokemon

[emberglowfox]

all tangled up

un-gradient mapped vers:

[trainerpeony]

so giacomo’s hair looks a hell of a lot like grimsley’s. while it would be funny if they were related, consider: giocomo just thinks grimsley is like, the coolest guy ever and wants to be him. some kid from paldea is grimsley’s Biggest Fan.

[bepsimantheanomaly]

this was just the false dragon titan in a nutshell