I’ve been so busy lately, this little lady’s birthday snuck up on me! She would turn 3 today, if we follow real time (being born in 2017), so here’s the birthday girl in her birthday frock. Even if it’s just a quick sketch late at … Continue reading
whats-ahead: I made emotes of everyone (who’s semi active) in the fankids chat. To anyone interesting in joining the chat who has fankids here’s the link
Do Aurora and Nasuka know about each other?
Aurora does not know about Nasuka, but Nasuka knows about Aurora!
In more detail, Malva actually isn’t aware of Nasuka, or at least has never confirmed that Nasuka is her daughter. She hooked up with Ryuki during one of his tours in Kalos, but he’d moved on by the time he even realized he was pregnant, so Nasuka is either born on the road or back in Alola, with Malva none the wiser. As such, Aurora doesn’t know about her half-sister since Malva, not knowing herself, would have never mentioned it.
Nasuka on the other hand, while not 100% sure, has a pretty good idea that Malva is her mother. Ryuki never confirmed it was her, just saying that Nasuka’s mother was someone he met on tour and had a brief fling with, but based on Nasuka’s own looks and what she can piece together from her father’s account, she’s able to figure out that Malva might be the one. So, when she looked up what Malva was doing currently, Nasuka found out she had married Glacia and had a daughter, who would most likely be her half-sister. She’s not sure yet what to do with the information.
What caused Lorelei and Yukihiro to be divorced?
Yukihiko is one of the former Legendary Pokémon who returned to his human form due to the machinations of this AU’s main evil team/antagonists, Team Oracle. The exact details of how he and Lorelei met and ended up married is still something I’m working on, but either way they get together and have one child, a son named Finn.
I think I’ve mentioned this previously, but Team Oracle is targeting both the former Legendaries themselves and people connected to them, including their children. While on their pokémon journey, Finn and his childhood friend Rihito (the son of former Entei and Moltres) are take prisoner by the team to be used in their plans, though when this happens nobody knows that Team Oracle is responsible as they’d stayed mostly underground up to that point (it’s roughly around the same time Emery and co. start their own journey.)
Losing their only child under mysterious circumstances with no leads on if he’s even alive puts a big strain on Lorelei and Yukihiko’s relationship, which eventually leads to them living separately. I might not have them actually finalize a divorce, but for all intents and purposes, they’re no longer together. However, when Finn (and everyone else who had been captured by Team Oracle) are rescued during the main plot, there’s a good chance his parents will get back together.
Drasna/Malva would make a good couple.
I actually have endgames planned for both of these characters already!
Drasna is Wulfric’s secret wife (the one only mentioned in supplementary materials) just since I thought they would be cute, and I’m a sucker for “contrasting type specialties” ships, so a dragon-type trainer and an ice-type trainer seemed like they would be fun. I do know that the woman in Wulfric’s locket has brown hair rather than black like Drasna, but she could easily have dyed it, especially since one of the kids in the picture has dark hair!
As for Malva, I’ve recently grown fond of the idea of her and Glacia as a ship, so I’ll tentatively be reviving my old Glacia fankid, Aurora, with this ship rather than Glacia/Morgan. She’s still a coordinator and will probably be a rival for Levi and Lydia!
pkmnomegaverse: Fighting Screen Mock-Up – Fight Your Mom Edition. Did another one of these using the kids from the Dawn Fankid pic I did earlier. Kiddos are… my Riley/Dawn daughter, Kyra pokemon-legends-and-legacies‘s Gijinka!Giratina/Dawn daughter, Tanith mysticspkmnfankids‘s Paul/Dawn son, Alex pkmn-downtheline‘s Paul/Dawn daughter, Lizzie endlesshighway-pkmn‘s Paul/Dawn … Continue reading
Do you have any major inspirations (storytelling, art, characters, etc.) when it comes to your verse?
I definitely do! I’ve loved the fantasy genre for a long time, so that’s what inspired me to make a fantasy AU for the Pokémon world, with magic, mythical creatures, and lots of myth/lore-oriented worldbuilding. My original inspiration for this was way back when I was in elementary school and I watched Lucario and the Mystery of Mew for the first time – this movie introduced me to the idea of combining pokémon and fantasy in a way I’d never thought of before, so it’s still a very special movie for me (and my fave pokémon movie in general).
A lot of the ways magic works, how people interact with the supernatural, and the like are all inspired by the fantasy media I’ve consumed over the years, but there’s not one source that’s the main inspiration. However, the concept of dragonbloods, apart from deriving just from my love of dragons, was inspired by a few different pokémon fanfics I’ve read where humans have types like pokémon do – Triumverate and its spinoffs by Renaerys in particular.
The story beats from L&L have some inspiration from other media as well. The main plot has some Pokémon Mystery Dungeon and Tales of Symphonia inspiration (among others), for example, and a number of more minor fankids are direct expies of fictional characters (just because I felt like it haha). Other minor plotlines might just be inspired by things I like since I wanted to explore how that story would work in the verse I’ve created – like how the Alola kids have a Stranger Things-esque story. This is one of the big reasons I have so many fankids – I just want to be able to play around with many different kinds of stories.
In terms of other people, I’m friends with a number of others in the Pokémon Fankid community and we’ll often discuss ideas. In particular, @pkmnomegaverse and I talk a lot about story and character ideas and come up with a lot of different things together, so that’s why there’s some overlap in our two AUs! We both draw inspiration from each other constantly since we’re often discussing ideas for fankids, the parents, plot points, etc. The whole community in general is a huge inspiration since discovering it is what gave me the idea to make fankids in the first place, and that led to everything else in the AU.
[insert pen emoji] + Verbena? c:
(Verbena is one of my Cilan/Clemont kids!)
She’s technology oriented like Clemont is, but rather than inventions and robots, she enjoys coding and programming, especially thinks like code-cracking, writing robot AI, and hacking. If there’s a puzzle to solve that involves code, Verbena is going to want to take it apart and tackle it.
That said, she also has a habit of messing with tech she shouldn’t and has gotten in trouble with school before for messing with teacher’s displays and the like. Whenever they get a call from school about her, Clemont is sure to give Cilan his best stink-eye since Cilan was the one who sparked her interest in coding in the first place (it being something he’s good at.)
Verbena is a pokémon trainer, but she’s not got any real ambitions beyond learning new things and spending time with her computers, so her parents sort of pressure her into trying to challenge the Kalos League to give her something to do (and she actually ends up really liking it, enjoying these high-stakes battles more than just fun battles with her fathers or brothers.) I’m not sure yet who she travels with though.
🖊 + Susanna
I did a quick sketch of her design since it’s one I’ve had in mind for a while now:
– She’s Sonia and Nessa’s only child and is an aspiring scientist like her mother and great-grandmother. I can see her focus being on marine pokémon thanks to all the time she spent with Nessa’s pokémon and by the water growing up.
– She’s got a fair amount of admirers, but dislikes the attention since she’s sure they’re all only interested in her for superficial reasons like her looks or because her parents are famous. She’ll shut down anyone who seems like they might be a fan which has led to her getting a bit of a reputation for being “cold” (also thanks to her RBF lol.)
– Her best friend is Nasrin (Leon/Raihan/Piers) and the two have known each other since childhood since their parents of course are all friends. Nasrin is also fairly serious like Susanna is, so they get along well and often will hang out together when Nasrin’s not busy training to try and beat Champion Victor.
– Her starter is a Feebas she caught with her mothers’ help in the lake behind her great-grandmother’s house on Route 2. I thought it would be cute for her to befriend one after watching the Twilight Wings episode focusing on Nessa. Susanna doesn’t battle, though, so her Milotic is more of a research assistant. She’ll often ride Milotic in the water while studying aquatic pokémon in their natural habitats.
SEND ME A 🖊 AND A CHARACTER AND I’LL WRITE OUT SOME HEADCANONS FOR THEM!
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