lexiesdoodles: Commission for @moenecropyromancer ! She asked for me to do a game verse setting Yellow and Leaf piece. In her headcanon they end up bonding while investigating/searching for Mewtwo (which is very cute)  

Morty/Falkner!

who is more likely to get injured doing small tasks – Morty tbh haha. He’s a bit spacier than the more methodical Falkner and is also likely to get distracted by a spirit while working on something.

who worries more about the other – Falkner. He’s prone to worrying in general and especially after losing Janine (even if it was something they both knew was coming long before it happened) he tends to fuss over Morty a lot. His biggest concern is something supernatural happening to his husband that he won’t be able/equipped to help with. (This habit of worrying extends to their children as well, he’s definitely a rather overprotective parent.)

who is more afraid about the other leaving them – Morty. While the whole situation was very complicated and is over and done with, Falkner did break up with him to marry Janine, when you break it down to bare basics, and that does still sting for Morty even now. While he knows that it’s extremely unlikely such a situation could arise for either of them now, the fact that it did happen places a seed of doubt in Morty’s mind sometimes.

who is more likely to leave (for any reason) – Probably Morty? After everything it’d take a pretty serious situation for either of them to leave the other, but Morty’s line of work (dealing with spirits/people’s ghost issues) is dangerous and he knows that Falkner isn’t the hugest fan of it. If he ever felt like he’d maybe attracted some bad attention from a powerful ghost/spirit or was putting his family in danger in any way, he’d leave for their sake. Falkner knows this and doesn’t like it at all, but does understand. It’s probably one of the most common things they argue about.

who is more likely to drunkenly confess – Falkner. While he’s usually on the more reserved side, he’s more open about his feelings when tipsy. Drinking usually just makes Morty fall asleep.

who is more likely to push the other away (for any reason) – It depends on when in their relationship we’re talking? If it’s earlier on, then Falkner, who tended to dislike showing ‘weakness’ in front of Morty and preferred being alone when he was having a bad time. However, as things progress he ends up being more clingy and while he never is the type to initiate talking about his feelings when he’s upset, he prefers if Morty were nearby or just holding him quietly when he needs it. Morty would be the more likely one then later on, since sometimes things can be overwhelming for him between his empathy and his spiritual awareness and he just needs some alone time.

who picks fights more often – Falkner. He tends to start arguments more just since he speaks his mind more openly than Morty does, so if his husband is doing something he finds objectionable he’ll say it outright, even if it leads to an argument.

who usually apologizes first – Morty. Even if he doesn’t know what he’s apologizing for. If he senses that Falkner is upset, he’ll usually apologize, which Falkner finds quite annoying since why apologize if you don’t even know if you did anything? But at least it usually leads to Falkner talking about why he’s upset, and if he knows he started the argument/fight he’ll typically apologize first since he’s quick to anger quick to cool.

who is more likely to withhold their feelings for the other – Morty. He knows he’s a bit… odd and intense in a way that a lot of people would probably find off-putting, so he’d rather wait for someone he was interested in to make the first move. (Which is probably why he attracts people like Falkner and Jasmine who are indeed the type to make the first move if they think they have a shot.)

who is more likely to lash out at the other – Falkner. Though that’s not to say Morty doesn’t have his moments, especially when he’s stressed and/or overwhelmed.

who gets more jealous – Falkner. He went through a lot to end up where he is now, finally married to Morty, so anything or anyone that he thinks threatens that… (Morty, on the other hand, despite the one who was in a situation where the man he loved was married to someone else, just isn’t the type to get jealous. He mainly just felt sad about himself during that time period and tried to move on and wish Falkner the best.)

who is more likely to support the other in a relationship with someone else “as long as they’re happy” – MORTY MORTY MORTY. It already happened earlier in their relationship haha. (Though in that case it was a bit of a situation of “As long as you’re happy, Falkner, I’ll support yours and Janine’s relationship.” “But it’s an arranged marriage, Morty, and Janine said she doesn’t mind if we keep seeing each other.” “No it’s ok, I understand, you don’t have to make concessions for little old me I’ll be able to move on, please, be happy with her.” “……… for an empath you sure are dense sometimes.”)

Lol so it’s coincidence after all. Still hilarious. I love black clover you see so my mind immediately thought of it upon reading the names the first time. Anyways, I’m interested now in Asta and Nero, do you have any arts/picrews of them? Can you talk about them a little? Thank you in advance :)

Sure! I will share some stuff about their fam first since it’s relevant to their designs. (Sorry in advance for this getting long.) For some reason I thought I had made a post about what the Pokémon Go leaders (+ Arlo) are up to in this verse but I maybe didn’t? So I’ll just do a quick breakdown here with a focus on the parents of these kids. All three of the team leaders are Kanto League Gym Trainers in this AU: Candela in Cinnabar, under Gym Leader Shouju, Blanche in Cerulean, under Gym Leader Daisy (who specializes in Ice-types), and Spark in Vermillion under Gym Leader Visquez (who is Surge’s successor in the Journeys anime!). (Ok it did get very long so will add a cut here.)

Spark does have a close bond with Lt. Surge (as evidenced by the shared surname), but they’re not related by blood. When getting ideas for how to implement Go characters in this verse I did poke around to see what hcs people had for them, and saw a fair amount of Spark – Lt. Surge and Arlo – Giovanni relation hcs (along with a lot of wonderful Sparlo art which tipped me in favor of the ship haha) so decided those would work well for me as well! In this case, when Spark was young he ended up being orphaned and was struggling on his own, and Surge, a young gym leader at the time, took him under his wing. Spark isn’t formally adopted into the Surge family until after the Lt. and Violet marry, however. Lavender & Heather see him as an uncle, since he’s not that much younger than their parents.

Arlo gets the convoluted RocketFam drama backstory since when isn’t Gio’s family convoluted. Basically the idea I had was to incorporate him into Giovanni and Ariana’s (honesty notorious) on-again-off-again marriage and run with the idea from one particular manga adaptation that Gio has a twin brother. The twin, who I named Giorgio, has actually existed in this verse for a long time (he’s been on Renato & Celeste’s profiles from the beginning I think), but I’ve never really done anything with him so this was my chance! What happened, essentially, is that after Ariana discovered her husband’s affair with Delia she decided to retaliate by having an affair with his brother, which resulted in Arlo (so he’s both the half-brother and cousin to Mars & Silver, along with being Ash & Gabe’s cousin). He’s raised by his father in another region and isn’t super involved with TR until he’s older. I’m still working on how he fits into the modern, Silver-run, somewhat-reformed Rocket and how the Sparlo relationship unfolds but this is the basic backstory.

Ok now finally for Asta and Nero. They’re still heavily in development but I have done a basic Picrew design for both of them. Here they are!

The reason the backstories were relevant for their designs is just since I used grandparents Ariana & Giorgio for some of their looks. Arlo inherited Ariana’s red eyes & Giorgio’s black hair, but Asta inherits Giorgio’s purple eyes and Nero inherits Ariana’s red hair (though his is darker than hers.)

Asta is a very energetic troublemaker type of girl who loves exploring outside and is prone to impulsive stunts. While she’s a trainer, she’s not super interested in the League or anything like that and I have vague plans for her to end up as a pokémon breeder and open a pokémon refuge/sanctuary when she’s older. Basically I channeled a lot of the Team Instinct memes with her haha.

Nero is less developed, but I know he’s the calm and more serious counterpart to his outgoing sister. He’s a bit edgy, especially in his teen years (I like to imagine him dyeing some black streaks in his hair in sort of an opposite look to his father’s dyed red streaks which just makes Asta constantly call him a Zoroark lol). I think he’s probably friends with his cousin Celeste since they’re around the same age, but that’s not super developed yet either. I also have some vague ideas for friendships with the Gary/Goh/Horace kids, but again it’s all still under development.

Asta and Nero? Is this a reference to Black Clover?

I’d heard of Black Clover but have never watched or read it so the names are definitely a coincidence! I just went and looked the characters up and was very surprised that not only does the series have two characters with the same name (though only sort of in Nero’s case from what I read on the wiki), but they’re even main/major characters with a close bond, haha.

For my fankids, I really did just pick two names that I thought were nice, that’s my whole reasoning. Asta’s nickname was mainly to differentiate her from the canon character Astrid, and also since I think the name is cute, and then Nero got his name/nickname since the rest of his family have a longer name + nickname, so the names all flowed together a bit better. I find the accidental parallels hilarious though!

Another worldbuilding change/update. As I’ve developed how magic works in this AU I’ve realized that the concept of dragonbloods (humans descended from dragons with some draconic traits) are kind of redundant when compared with other people who have some supernatural ancestry. So, I’ve (sort of) removed the concept. At least as a separate distinction from other humans with magic powers/supernatural heritage. Small unusual traits like pointed ears, slight fangs, etc are common enough in those with supernatural lineage from a variety of sources, not just dragons, so having to categorize those who happened to have a dragon ancestor started to feel limiting to me. I’ll still note what kind of supernatural ancestry a character might have (dragon or otherwise) on profiles, but the category has been removed from filters on the profile pages and from individual profiles.

After debating it with myself for a while, I’m going to be adjusting the date system for this verse (again). Nothing too fancy, just a 29xx & 30xx rather than 19xx & 20xx system so it keeps in line better with my lore about there being a big apocalyptic event 3000 years ago or so (not the Kalos war that happened more like 2700 years ago for this verse). I’ll be (slowly) updating all the profiles age pages to reflect this, but hopefully the similarity to our current calendar (just off by 1000 years) will still make the dates easy to understand!

I pulled Lysandre in PokéMas after drawing Florian earlier this year so I’ll try to channel that luck again by drawing Nasrin to get Raihan! Nasrin is the middle child of Leon, Raihan & Piers’s family and she’s biologically Leon/Raihan’s daughter. She’s the most serious … Continue reading

Edit: Tweaked some small things! Jasper prototype design ~ He’s the second child (by a few minutes) of Steven and Wallace (having an older twin sister, Maia, and an 8 years younger brother, Alphonse). He’s generally known as a nuisance around his home of Sootopolis … Continue reading

sydchan: The next pic in this series, featuring a canon character and various fankids for that character, made by different people across the fandom.  Serena is the subject of this one and due to the sheer number of amazing fankids people have made for her, … Continue reading