Nothing special this time just another bibi doodle i forgot to upload lol.
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1. Hurray!!! I FINALLY finished up her entire roster. Skeledirge and Ribombee are always on her team but the rest of em swap in and out of rotation.
2. Haven't gotten to draw too much because work has been absolutely KILLER lately. I feel like Larry.
3. Wanna hear my playlist thoughts? No? Too bad, I'm doing it anyways~ In general there's a lot of tracks from children's anime and video games, and I promise that's not just me being a turbo nerd, generally speaking I wanted the vibe to be lighthearted and sorta evocative of being in your early to mid teens and such, so that was a purposeful choice.
Bling bang bang born is just a super fun and bouncy track and its boastful lyrics work super well for her in the beginning of her story where she has next to no doubts about her abilities.
Standout lyrics: (Like....the entirety of the first verse lmao).
"Before I show them my true ability
My enemies run away without using their capability
Raising the bar makes me vеry happy
Cause I'm outstanding, absolutely at No. 1
As always, I upgrade mysеlf every day (Bling, bling, bling)
Don’t need anyone’s support cause I'm icier than your ice (Icy)
Might seem useless at first, but still, I'm very happy
I’m crazed…My crew is fed up
Blessed with great family and friends (Happy)
I'm illegally invincible, so guys, let me be in charge (Bang-bang-bang)
You won't find them in any textbooks or drill books
My words are a curse with truly BAD looks, listen"
Zoom zoom serves a very similar purpose, it's also the track I think is probably most reflective of what Bibi's actual taste in music would probably be like since she's a pretty modern girl, I think the trendier more contemporary sound of k-pop/hyperpop is more in line with her interests even if I tend to associate her more with like, mid 2000's j-pop/j-rock.
Standout lyrics: honestly the whole song just fits!
"You know I'm not afraid to go
Jump straight into the storm
Sit back, enjoy the ride (Ok, ok)
I don't care what they say
I want it all for me
Can't stop me
Let 'em all know that
I'm ready to take it on"
Heart to Heart off of the original pretty cure OST might feel a tad out of place here being a love song in a character whose story doesn't have a ton of romance going on, but the lower energy compared to the previous two tracks makes moving into the 4th one a little smoother I think? The almost Spanish sorta influence is a little nod to the fact that she's Paldean, and she is definitely a bit of a romantic so it's not too out of place character wise. I like the vocals of the German version of this song a bit better but the JP version feels cheesier and therefor more Bibi-ish.
Standout lyrics:
"heart to heart
My chest is almost bursting as I search for you
heart to heart
To keep wishing is to keep our dream alive
This is the world that transcends darkness and light"
Watashi wa Zutto Egao datta shi Asa no Uranai datte Warukunai Kitto Kyou mo Daijoubu Yoi Ichinichi ni Narimasu you ni. Oh Haniwa, I like your stuff but your titles are a beast.....There's no actual English TL for this song available unfortunately but going off my rough knowledge of JP and machine TL it's roughly "I've always been happy and my morning horoscope wasn't bad, surely, today will be fine too. I hope today will be good." The Haniwa tracks I like can be described as "pleasantly suffocating" at least in my opinion, and this one's no different. It's got a super distinct sense of pretending everything is going to be fine when it's not, which I think is great to convey that Bibi copes really unhealthily with her feelings of powerlessness/loneliness before she gets set straight. Plus the chanting is kinda reminiscent of the Area Zero OST! And uh....I'm sure you can guess what the scream reminds me of.
Standout lyrics: 2:45 - 3:23
"Let's stop telling such sad stories! I've always been happy. Even today I'm still smiling. Just yesterday, we all had a celebration party! There's not a single thing making me sad. There's not a single thing I'm lacking!
That's right! Let's gather together again tomorrow and have a party just like this! It will surely be a fun party!
I've always been happy and my morning horoscope wasn't bad, surely, today will be fine too. I hope today will be good"
No One Lives Forever, well, this one's all in the title. Grappling with death and her own mortality but after the comparatively calm piece before it we're kicking up the energy again. Rather than cheery though it's more frantic than anything, since post Area Zero Bibi is all nerves, like a rubber band ready to snap at any second, flinching at sudden movements like a scared animal.
Standout lyrics:
"I'm clever as can be
And I'm very quick
But don't forget
We've only got so many tricks
No one lives forever"
Dead! is continuing on with the mood set by the track before it, you'd honestly think there'd be MORE black parade tracks on this list given it's an album about being diagnosed with cancer and she's already had to struggle with being incredibly ill early in life. There's a lot of emotions I think are captured well in this track, the sort of fearful incredulity you feel when some horrible piece of news hits you, all the contemplation about what people are going to say about you when you're gone, realizing that you've only got so much time to live your life and regretting all the things you haven't done before it all gets cut short. All that juicy stuff without getting any less noisy than the song prior!
Standout lyrics:
"Have you heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say, I
Think they never liked you anyway
Oh, take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand? It ain't exactly what you planned
And wouldn't it be great if we were dead?"
Storyteller is perhaps the least thematically/lyrically relevant but it's honestly just such a great track to imagine someone picking themselves up from a low point to. I've brought it up before as a potential "VS" theme for Bibi since I think the tone captures the vibe of someone looking back on past mistakes and forging a new path forward.
Standout lyrics:
"Ooh! What's so worth nothing
Ooh! What's worth a bad thing
There is no need for sorrow
Great songs will never die"
Extras, conversely, maybe has the least Bibi-ish sound, the metal screaming is a little too discordant, the chorus is a wee bit too soft, but the lyrics are just very her.
Standout lyrics:
"I stumble many times
I might get hurt
But I keep on running
Who'd walk out on the street
Bothered about
Bumps in the road?
I'm scared of the laughter but
I love to laugh myself
Hear the words I only like
So let's smile and laugh"
Shining star brings us back to the soft and cheesy with another pretty cure OST lol. A song from a series about a pair of characters who have to fight together works well since the climax of Bibi's story/character arc revolves around her teaming up with Carmine and then Kieran to take down Terapagos. It's a cute and triumphant piece and super nostalgic to me.
Standout lyrics:
"You know no matter how strong you are a day will come that stops you in your tracks
I love you because you'll fight through endless uncertainty
When you feel you can't move, go forward with unwavering courage"
And finally, Prove is here, and like bling bang bang born, no one lives forever, and storyteller it's another track I've brought up before. Rather than prove herself in the eyes of other people, by the time her story's about wrapped up her main concern is proving to herself that she can do better as a person rather than just as a trainer lol.
Standout lyrics:
"One step at a time
No matter how long it takes
I will make the climb
Learn from the mistakes I’ve made
When times are looking tough
I will be looking up to you
I found a better life
That’ll be the one that I choose"
so I really wanted to limit that playlist to 10 songs, but if you want some bonus tracks......
Macaroni is just the kind of oldschool j-pop that I would soundtrack a softer moment featuring Bibi to, all warm and fuzzy like how she gets with her friends
Standout lyrics:
"Even if it comes to an end someday
until then I want to protect you
I want to be forever in this kind feeling
how long can we spend huddled close together?"
As for plastic girl by capsule, see above.
Standout lyrics:
"Ah, I fall in love even though I’m plastic.
Even my manicure is his favorite color
But I’m not any good at choosing what words to say in conversation,
la la la, my heart short circuits"
Thank you!! is another song I think Bibi herself might actually enjoy and it's a good post-character-development type song.
Standout lyrics:
"Nobody can go on living just on their own
We each take care of one another
And talk it over when we misunderstand each other
I wanna throw my head back and laugh together"
May you alone be happy was an alternative pick to track 4 as another Haniwa track but geez, this one's a little TOO miserable, and very very low energy and toned down despite the edgier lyrics.
Standout lyrics:
"Now’s the time for transformation, because our enemies are right before our eyes, anDEATHHHHHHHH beside our eyes are our friends given in to the Four Noble Truths."
"We’re invincible, we’ve got nothing to be afraid of!”
Eyaaay! We’re rooting for you! You’re everyone’s hero.
Hey. You were serious, right?"
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But let's be serious nobody came here to read all that. Here's some more old doodles and such, one of these days I promise you I'll sit down and dig through my folders and post everything that's collecting dust in there.
Wow. That was a lot to digest, but I must say your playlist fits Bibi to a T. Not that I'm surprised. Who knows your character better than you?
Wow. That's amazing! Bibi's Ribombee looks awesome. I wish I could animate.
Thanks a million! It's never EVER too late to pick up new skills, I myself am just learning (ok, well, relearning, i learned the very basics of animation in middle school but I'm a whole adult with a job now, so i'm honestly back at square one) if you've got an art program that runs on your computer I assure you, you totally CAN animate! Things like time restraints and life struggles always get in the way of creativity but my sincere hope is that you never give up on making stuff you love, it's intimidating to try new things, but very worth it.
I've come bearing more hatterene gags, I guess if I bring up hatterene the viewer ought to take that as a warning that there's gonna be some sort of violence involved, albeit comedic.
I also made a little video using some old meme audio, ft timeskip alto and bibi, be warned its quite loud though! https://files.catbox.moe/1d45mj.mp4
I also made a little video using some old meme audio, ft timeskip alto and bibi, be warned its quite loud though! https://files.catbox.moe/1d45mj.mp4
here's an older doodle! this one was for the prompt "draw your OCs birthday party" ft bibi, the area zero crew, and kitakami siblings all watching a movie
these were some attempts to replicate the gen 1-3 artstyle
and a little relationship chart i doodled to explain what her relationships are generally like
Oh goodness gracious I genuinely can't believe it's almost been a month since I updated this thread
Warning for swearing I guess, but I'll start us off with something silly. I'm still a little on the fence as to how to handle terapagos since frankly, I don't want it being on Bibi's roster of usable party members lol. So far my ideas as to how to solve this problem are!
1. Have Bibi catch, but struggle to overcome her negative feelings towards it. While completely unintentional, it did very much almost kill her, Kieran, Briar, and Carmine, and it's just so representative of Area Zero as a whole that she can't bring herself to raise it with the same sort of affection she holds for all of her other team members, to the point where she leaves it confined to its pokeball. I think the other characters would call her out on being a bit cruel to it though, and encourage her to work on treating it fairly. She'd still fear it a bit too much to train it, since she knows what would happen if it went berserk, but she could at least let it be around as a traveling companion and non-combatant like her mienshao, which retires from battling.
2. Avoid this issue entirely by having Kieran capture it.
3. Continue off from idea 1......but have her give terapagos to Alto, a trainer she KNOWS doesn't have the capacity to bring out its fighting potential. It'd definitely be a non-combatant shoulder mon in this case, and Bibi would make him promise to keep its true nature a secret.
Moving on, man I've been listening to mesmerizer nonstop since it came out. Note that the lyrics are quite dark despite the happy hardcore tune, though I mean that wouldn't be a surprise to any longtime vocaloid fan lol. In all honesty, there's no real lyrical relevance to Bibi or Kieran's character arcs unless you wanna stretch the theme of escapism as being reflective of Bibi's unhealthy coping strategies or the lyrics "If you haven't got it, then give up. Playing with the leftovers is your fate." as speaking to Kieran's view of himself. I just like the song/artstyle so I wanted to pay tribute to it!
Warning for swearing I guess, but I'll start us off with something silly. I'm still a little on the fence as to how to handle terapagos since frankly, I don't want it being on Bibi's roster of usable party members lol. So far my ideas as to how to solve this problem are!
1. Have Bibi catch, but struggle to overcome her negative feelings towards it. While completely unintentional, it did very much almost kill her, Kieran, Briar, and Carmine, and it's just so representative of Area Zero as a whole that she can't bring herself to raise it with the same sort of affection she holds for all of her other team members, to the point where she leaves it confined to its pokeball. I think the other characters would call her out on being a bit cruel to it though, and encourage her to work on treating it fairly. She'd still fear it a bit too much to train it, since she knows what would happen if it went berserk, but she could at least let it be around as a traveling companion and non-combatant like her mienshao, which retires from battling.
2. Avoid this issue entirely by having Kieran capture it.
3. Continue off from idea 1......but have her give terapagos to Alto, a trainer she KNOWS doesn't have the capacity to bring out its fighting potential. It'd definitely be a non-combatant shoulder mon in this case, and Bibi would make him promise to keep its true nature a secret.
Moving on, man I've been listening to mesmerizer nonstop since it came out. Note that the lyrics are quite dark despite the happy hardcore tune, though I mean that wouldn't be a surprise to any longtime vocaloid fan lol. In all honesty, there's no real lyrical relevance to Bibi or Kieran's character arcs unless you wanna stretch the theme of escapism as being reflective of Bibi's unhealthy coping strategies or the lyrics "If you haven't got it, then give up. Playing with the leftovers is your fate." as speaking to Kieran's view of himself. I just like the song/artstyle so I wanted to pay tribute to it!
Hm, i suppose it might be a wee bit on the nose to post this during pride month but I've been cooking up some non-bibi related storylines, but it's all yuri/shoujo ai (and SFW worry not) so I suppose if such doesn't appeal to your sensibilities you can skip over this post. I've gotten my idea for the main character mostly sorted out but I just can't decide on a route to take for her love interest lol
Meet Nyx!
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj1GooBp0ss&pp=ygUIa3VydW91emU%3D (狂おうぜ - 宮下遊×seeeeecun (Official Video))
^Essentially the TLDR on Nyx if you don't have time to read all of this.
The story will likely take place in Hoenn or Kalos, I've yet to decide.
Nyx is just a run of the mill office lady, a young twenty-something with a promising future ahead of her, meek, but a hard worker, doing her best to support her team by pulling overtime shifts and covering for her coworkers' mistakes. She has also stormed into work two hours late after pulling the classic mental breakdown maneuver of taking a scissor to her own bangs without any help, slamming a letter of resignation down on her boss' desk fully intent on doing fuckall for the two weeks she's obligated to clock in for. But before we get into any of that let's turn the clock back a bit shall we?
You see, before graduating high school as an honor student, completing college a year ahead of schedule, and being offered a job at a reputable company, guaranteeing her financial stability for the foreseeable future, Nyx was a starry eyed trainer. Perhaps a bit of a punk, but that was just her fashion sense really. As much as she admired the hardcore attitudes and rebel spirits of that sort of crowd Nyx was timid by nature. Nonetheless, like most other kids her age she at least wanted to give the league a shot, and after begging and pleading with her strict parents for years, she was gifted a Deino. The intention of giving her a notoriously difficult Pokemon to raise was to scare her back onto the narrow path they set up for her under the cover that they simply wanted her to succeed and thus provided her with a Pokemon boasting immense potential. Unfortunately for them, Nyx's dedication to raising her partner and completing the league challenge carried her far, and perhaps a bit slowly, but most certainly surely, she collected all 8 badges of the region and made her way to the elite four after a couple years on the road.
Little Nyx, accompanied by her Zweilous, Sableye, Mandibuzz, Swalot, and Absol, takes on the E4 only to face a disastrous loss at the hands of the champion. Devastated by her poor performance, her defeatist attitude kicks in and she completely gives up on being a trainer, convinced that it was never her calling or place to try living out that dream. She packs her things and resigns herself to living the way her parents intended, with the sole exception of keeping her team rather than selling or trading them off for ones with more practical uses around the home. Of course, even with her academic gifts leading her to a steady job Nyx still has her hardships. Nothing ever seems quite enough for her parents, her quiet and soft spoken demeanor often leads to others taking credit for her work, and she's also worked up a bit of a nicotine addiction. Even though she's supposedly done everything right, the pressure feels like it's only mounting instead of stopping, and the straw that broke the Camerupt's back?
Tale as old as time. The guy who the boss just promoted is the idiot with the loudest voice in the room.
The smart thing to do would be to play along, continue sycophantically sucking up to her boss, and keep at her job. To simply focus on being a good employee until her time and dedication are recognized. But as evidenced by her uneven bangs and poorly done streaks, Nyx had just about had it with smart decisions.
Which brings us to present day, present time, and present Nyx going on something of a bender, drinking and complaining the rest of the day and some of the early evening away to her friend and local bartender Stella. However, as activity picks up and the regular customers start rolling in, Nyx is left to brood on her own for a bit, that is, until her eyes lock with those of a beautiful stranger.
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Outside the bar, peering into the window, a petite girl looks in. Her expression should be unreadable, but Nyx swears there's almost something forlorn and lonely betrayed in those eyes. She feels compelled to invite her in and strike up a conversation, but her quiet voice can barely reach Nyx's ears over the lively chatter of the evening crowd. This prompts Nyx to invite the girl to the roof for conversation, and she can't help but feel a wee bit proud of herself for making another step towards being the bolder self she wants to be.
Alone time with a cute girl in a secluded area isn't all it's cracked up to be though as most of Nyx's attempts at flirting or conversation fall flat. The mysterious girl in white has introduced herself as Rina and while not rude or aggressive, is awfully quiet and hesitant to share anything about herself. However, she's awfully curious about Nyx and listens to her own explanations of her life's story and woes with what Nyx promises isn't her slightly drunken imagination's fabrication of an eager expression. Nyx eventually tells Rina that it's OK if she doesn't want to share anything and that if she's being too pushy she can stop, but it's this consideration that cracks the blue haired girl's shell. She asks Nyx if she'll believe her story no matter what.
"Of course" Nyx lies.
And thus Rina reveals to Nyx, her silhouette backlit by the full moon, that she's actually an alien. Or rather, she must be, as she has no recollection of who she is, merely that a week ago she woke up in a crate in the middle of nowhere and was lucky enough to encounter some travelers who noticed her disheveled state after almost two days of wandering and guided her back to society. As for why she must be an alien, not far from where she woke up she noticed a small crater, pieces of debris, and a blue, star shaped creature lying unconscious within. Feeling an odd sense of kinship with it urged her to carry it along with her, and it seemed content to stay by her side after waking. No doubt it understood the security offered by a companion who thought to protect it while asleep, and it willingly accepted proper capture upon Rina's reintegration into the world. She was informed of Minior's interstellar origins and came to the conclusion that they were two extraterrestrial beings who must have crash landed on Earth.
Nyx tries to laugh it off at first before realizing Rina is dead serious. The idea is ridiculous enough to draw a bout of sarcasm from her, and in a moment of poor judgment, she snidely remarks that Rina should simply just fly back to outer space if she's so worried about the disconnect between her and other humans. Rina proceeds to take Nyx more seriously than perhaps anyone has in her entire life and takes a Swanna dive off the roof of the bar. Nyx has a moment of poor judgment that puts the last one to shame and quickly follows suit, calling her Mandibuzz out just in the nick of time to save the both of them. After much yelling and no apologies on the part of Rina, who matter-of-factly states she was just doing exactly as Nyx told her, Nyx realizes that leaving Rina to her own devices is liable to get her killed.
So she strikes up a proposition: Why not travel with her? Maybe by exploring the region they could discover more about Rina's origins, this way Rina has someone to guide her through a world that feels alien to her and Nyx doesn't have to worry about Rina wandering off on her own and getting herself killed. Rina lights up and notes that Nyx could use it as a chance to complete the league challenge she left unfinished as well. While Nyx is about to refute the idea she stops for a second. She had already left all her old prospects behind her, there were no obligations barring her from chasing old dreams, and even if the idea reeked of mid-life crisis despite her only being in her early twenties, she couldn't resist the appeal. And thus the two set off, one to find her old self, and the other to leave it behind.
Potential plot beats and misc thoughts
-So this one's the most fleshed out idea I suppose? But it also leans into Pokemon's more sci-fi elements and gets super out there, and has lots of bits I think might put some audiences off lol.
-The Big Major Plot Twist is that Rina is in fact, not quite human. She's an artificial human, AND a Pokemon-human hybrid to boot.
-You didn't stop reading then and there? Sweet. I haven't charted everything out yet but "Rina" isn't even her name, it's just derived from the fact that "PROJ.RNA" was written on the iron crate she was dumped in. She's the result of a research project funded by Team Flare for the study of immortality just in case the ultimate weapon didn't get the job done.
-As you might've guessed from RNA, the Pokemon she's supposed to be a hybrid of is Deoxys, which iirc has shown it can regenerate in the anime. But she's a failure on most accounts because she displays no potential for superhuman feats. In fact, the researchers were completely unable to get her conscious, making her essentially a lifeless doll. When funding got cut after Flare's plans were foiled they dumped her out in the wilderness hoping wild Pokemon would just eat her and dispose of the evidence.
-It is true that Rina has no superhuman abilities......Mostly. However, we all know Pokemon are able to rapidly advance, evolve, and show the ability to adapt to new environments. Rina had no need for conscious action and thought within the lab environment because it was safe, completely sterile, and her needs were accounted for without any action on her behalf. Exposed to the elements and without the constant efforts of staff to keep her in optimal conditions she "evolved"; Her cognitive functions and senses developing rapidly in order to get her to the point she could operate in the new environment.
-Her backstory is slowly revealed throughout her and Nyx's journey, when they encounter another crate with the same PROJ.RNA label dumped in the wilderness Rina insists they scan the area, and careful searching allows them to hone in on an abandoned research facility. It's mostly empty save for some kind of lead, a few pages of a report, a diary entry of the project head etc. However, it would be guarded by a powerful Pokemon.
-This becomes a pattern: Find and investigate an old research facility, battle and have Rina catch the guardian Pokemon, discover some evidence revealing more of Rina's backstory. Her final team would be Elgyem, Solosis, Sigilyph, Porygon-Z, and Minior this way.
-While Nyx's plot would center around her building up her sense of confidence, overcoming her self-sabotaging nature, and essentially having an "if you love something let it go and if it doesn't come back it was never yours at all" type development with Rina, Rina's would be about feelings of alienation and realizing that even if it feels like you’re all alone in the world, if you just keep trying, eventually you’ll find the people you can form meaningful connections with.
-I also just kinda think it’s romantic for a girl who has everything she needs but still rejects her place in the world to fall in love with a girl who pretty much has nothing and has to carve out a place for herself.
-I’m admittedly a bit unsure of what the climax of the story would be but it would obviously have Rina befriend and temporarily control Deoxys and fight alongside Nyx against whatever the big threat ends up being. I know I said she doesn’t have any special abilities but I do like to think she’s capable of communicating with it in a way most earthly beings can’t. After this the two converse and it offers to take her with it back to outer space. Seeing as a hostile environment triggered Rina’s ability to function normally, it’s entirely possible that she could similarly evolve to live in space alongside “her kind” if introduced to the depths of the cosmos. It assures her while it may seem cold and lonely in space, while their kind are few, they are.
-Nyx sees Rina seemingly about to leave for space and while it devastates her she doesn’t do anything to stop her.
-While Rina considers the idea she ultimately decides not to, instead insisting that she’s shackled by earth’s gravity. She asks for Deoxys to release her and dives for Nyx, and so we begin and end the story with her cradled in Nyx’s arms.
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OPTION 2: TOXIC (TRADITIONAL EARTH BALLAD BY BRITNEY SPEARS)
There, across the bar from Nyx, sits a stunning woman in a lab coat whose ruby red eyes promise....Well. Not a good time, but an interesting one at the very least. And Nyx’s heart is going to lead her places most wouldn’t even go with a gun. Taking a chance that would have a seasoned gambler like Grimsley go pale in the face, Nyx stumbles over to the empty seat next to the brunette and introduces herself.
Cerise, as she learns, is more than just a pretty face, and in fact is a research head for a well renowned organization that’s studying mega evolution (name pending). And of course, as an excellent judge of character, Cerise can tell Nyx is a trainer who has quite a bit of experience and untapped potential. She can see it in the smolder of determination burning in Nyx’s eyes. Or at least that’s what she purrs as edges closer, knowing that she’s more or less got Nyx wrapped around her finger.
Cerise is in fact a fairly good judge of character, but those readings were informed by the fact that she saw Nyx whip out her old badge case while complaining to Stella earlier, not to mention nobody in a stable state of mind cuts their own bangs. Like a Sharpedo smelling blood in the water, she seizes the chance to have her own little grunt to do some dirty work for her. She promises that if Nyx can just do a few small favors for little ol’ her, she’ll make it well worth the other woman’s time, and brandishes a mega bracelet to back up her talk.
You see, she loves her work, she really does. And because she loves her work, she’s just a tad worried about if it’s getting put to good use, and so she’ll need Nyx to do a little......Recon work for her. And if things are worse than she thought, mayhaps just a little bit of property damage, some toying with the security team, if Nyx wants she can even do some measured assault, doesn’t that sound fun?
Nyx actually thinks it sounds pretty terrifying but Cerise insists, though it’s hard to think about how hard she’s pushing Nyx into a corner metaphorically when she’s also doing it literally. Unable to resist the begging of a pretty woman or the call of power promised by access to mega evolution, Nyx reluctantly accepts, steeling herself by thinking about how not only is this going to force her out of her self-doubting behavior but also help someone she sees herself in, one betrayed employee to another.
Plot Beats and misc thoughts
-Rather than focus on Nyx finishing the league, this one has her and Cerise adopt a “soldier” and “mission control” dynamic, Cerise directing Nyx on how to best infiltrate facilities and providing tips on how to prepare for certain guards/encounters beforehand.
-The reason Cerise has one hand gloved is that she was injured by some kind of experiment gone wrong, one she already warned her superiors about, but rather than stop the project after the incident they merely ordered everyone to keep quiet about it. I’m not sure to what level of severity I want to go with, but I’m considering giving Cerise a prosthetic hand.
-Thing is, the above happened a long time ago, and Cerise simply kept quiet and continued to work as a good employee in the hopes that maybe, when she had a higher position on the organizational food chain, they would take her complaints about safety and ethics more seriously. Needless to say, things stayed the same, and Cerise’s optimism shriveled and died a bit more with each year spent working.
-At this point, she’s bitter and cynical enough that she just wants to cause some havoc without getting her own hands dirty or putting herself in the line of fire, she doesn’t actually care all that much about to what purposes her work is being used for but her moral justifications are meant to hook Nyx.
-Unfortunately for Cerise, Nyx’s unwavering trust in her is very endearing, and a couple missions in, her little disposable pawn isn’t all that disposable anymore.
-I’m not sure how this story concludes but I would want Nyx’s ultimately optimistic outlook on life and courage to break away from oppressive systems to melt through Cerise’s defenses. They expose how Cerise’s employers are up to shady business, probably something like forced mega evolution and mass produced mega stones or some such. The opportunity to betray Nyx for her own benefit presents itself but Cerise can’t bring herself to go through with it and they fight through the final challenge together.
-While not as much of a fighter as Nyx, Cerise can mega evolve her Beedrill, and I’d imagine her team has a Galarian Weezing, Hypno, Arbok, and Toxapex.
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OPTION 3: DID IT HURT? (WHEN YOU BROKE THROUGH THE EARTH’S CRUST ON YOUR ASCENT FROM HELL)
.......Wait a damn second. She knew those twin beauty marks anywhere. That wasn’t a stranger at all. In fact, the beautiful woman on the bar TV screen was painfully familiar to Nyx. It was almost hard to recognize her in her ostentatious outfit, but the girl had to be none other than Seraphina, an on and off companion and full time rival of Nyx’s. At least, that’s what they were back in the day.
As in, the girl who Nyx spent vast chunks of time exploring oceans, caves, rolling hills and valleys with. The girl who she carefully watched over as they slept in shifts in remote areas where the Pokemon were known to be a little more volatile. The girl who she had to comfort over every loss she suffered and the one who would insufferably tease Nyx each and every time she won. The girl who promised she would always be Nyx’s friend through thick and thin even though the two had their bouts of petty bickering and squabbling.
The girl who Nyx totally blew off and ghosted when she quit being a trainer, too ashamed to look in the eyes anymore.
The girl who was badmouthing Nyx on TV right this second. Nyx stares at the screen mouth agape as the dainty young lass, with posture and poise as angelic as her name implied, gave her inaugural speech as the head of a newly opened battle facility. She attributed her drive and success to none other than “a girl she used to know” who “relentlessly bullied her and put her down, but only served to strengthen her desire to bond with her Pokemon to prove her wrong.” Nyx would have given her the benefit of the doubt and assumed she was talking about someone, anyone else, until Seraphina tells stories that were obviously about her with some key twists of the details.
Nyx’s switch flips from “flabbergasted” to “incoherent bitch” in a matter of seconds. If she weren’t friends with the bartender the bouncer surely would have dragged her out for drunkenly cussing at the TV screen. Stella manages to calm her down and exasperatedly tells Nyx that if she wants to give Seraphina a piece of her mind, her best bet is to simply climb the ranks at that battle facility and tell her directly.
Plot beats and misc notes
-The least going on here but the rivals to enemies to friends dynamic might be something? Somehow it’s like the two are exes even though they never dated.
-This is notably the route that leaves Nyx without a travel companion of sorts, so I suppose in this instance there would probably be a lot more focus on her inner thoughts and interactions with whatever the side cast ends up being.
-I admittedly haven’t imagined the gimmick or setup of Seraphina’s facility yet, something princess or angel themed, as that is generally what I was going for with her design and her public persona as a sweetheart who can do no wrong.
-I think at some point BEFORE Nyx climbs to the top of that facility she and Seraphina cross paths by chance. The latter refuses to listen to anything the former has to say though and Nyx promises that she’s going to take Seraphina down herself if that’s what it takes for her to acknowledge her again.
-Seraphina’s a tsundere through and through, she probably does little things to support Nyx’s journey in secret.
-Nyx is completely torn between wanting to tear Seraphina to shreds and go back to being companions, so I guess she is too lol.
-Y’know how Nyx has an Absol? In this path it’d be replaced with something like a Mawile or Audino, and the Absol would instead be on Seraphina’s team. This is because the two would have traded Pokemon in the past as a sign of friendship, and mega Absol fits in with Seraphina’s angelic theming.
-Seraphina’s team is likely something like Togekiss (ace), Swanna, Absol, Espatra, Tsareena, and Skarmory
Meet Nyx!
^Essentially the TLDR on Nyx if you don't have time to read all of this.
The story will likely take place in Hoenn or Kalos, I've yet to decide.
Nyx is just a run of the mill office lady, a young twenty-something with a promising future ahead of her, meek, but a hard worker, doing her best to support her team by pulling overtime shifts and covering for her coworkers' mistakes. She has also stormed into work two hours late after pulling the classic mental breakdown maneuver of taking a scissor to her own bangs without any help, slamming a letter of resignation down on her boss' desk fully intent on doing fuckall for the two weeks she's obligated to clock in for. But before we get into any of that let's turn the clock back a bit shall we?
You see, before graduating high school as an honor student, completing college a year ahead of schedule, and being offered a job at a reputable company, guaranteeing her financial stability for the foreseeable future, Nyx was a starry eyed trainer. Perhaps a bit of a punk, but that was just her fashion sense really. As much as she admired the hardcore attitudes and rebel spirits of that sort of crowd Nyx was timid by nature. Nonetheless, like most other kids her age she at least wanted to give the league a shot, and after begging and pleading with her strict parents for years, she was gifted a Deino. The intention of giving her a notoriously difficult Pokemon to raise was to scare her back onto the narrow path they set up for her under the cover that they simply wanted her to succeed and thus provided her with a Pokemon boasting immense potential. Unfortunately for them, Nyx's dedication to raising her partner and completing the league challenge carried her far, and perhaps a bit slowly, but most certainly surely, she collected all 8 badges of the region and made her way to the elite four after a couple years on the road.
Little Nyx, accompanied by her Zweilous, Sableye, Mandibuzz, Swalot, and Absol, takes on the E4 only to face a disastrous loss at the hands of the champion. Devastated by her poor performance, her defeatist attitude kicks in and she completely gives up on being a trainer, convinced that it was never her calling or place to try living out that dream. She packs her things and resigns herself to living the way her parents intended, with the sole exception of keeping her team rather than selling or trading them off for ones with more practical uses around the home. Of course, even with her academic gifts leading her to a steady job Nyx still has her hardships. Nothing ever seems quite enough for her parents, her quiet and soft spoken demeanor often leads to others taking credit for her work, and she's also worked up a bit of a nicotine addiction. Even though she's supposedly done everything right, the pressure feels like it's only mounting instead of stopping, and the straw that broke the Camerupt's back?
Tale as old as time. The guy who the boss just promoted is the idiot with the loudest voice in the room.
The smart thing to do would be to play along, continue sycophantically sucking up to her boss, and keep at her job. To simply focus on being a good employee until her time and dedication are recognized. But as evidenced by her uneven bangs and poorly done streaks, Nyx had just about had it with smart decisions.
Which brings us to present day, present time, and present Nyx going on something of a bender, drinking and complaining the rest of the day and some of the early evening away to her friend and local bartender Stella. However, as activity picks up and the regular customers start rolling in, Nyx is left to brood on her own for a bit, that is, until her eyes lock with those of a beautiful stranger.
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Outside the bar, peering into the window, a petite girl looks in. Her expression should be unreadable, but Nyx swears there's almost something forlorn and lonely betrayed in those eyes. She feels compelled to invite her in and strike up a conversation, but her quiet voice can barely reach Nyx's ears over the lively chatter of the evening crowd. This prompts Nyx to invite the girl to the roof for conversation, and she can't help but feel a wee bit proud of herself for making another step towards being the bolder self she wants to be.
Alone time with a cute girl in a secluded area isn't all it's cracked up to be though as most of Nyx's attempts at flirting or conversation fall flat. The mysterious girl in white has introduced herself as Rina and while not rude or aggressive, is awfully quiet and hesitant to share anything about herself. However, she's awfully curious about Nyx and listens to her own explanations of her life's story and woes with what Nyx promises isn't her slightly drunken imagination's fabrication of an eager expression. Nyx eventually tells Rina that it's OK if she doesn't want to share anything and that if she's being too pushy she can stop, but it's this consideration that cracks the blue haired girl's shell. She asks Nyx if she'll believe her story no matter what.
"Of course" Nyx lies.
And thus Rina reveals to Nyx, her silhouette backlit by the full moon, that she's actually an alien. Or rather, she must be, as she has no recollection of who she is, merely that a week ago she woke up in a crate in the middle of nowhere and was lucky enough to encounter some travelers who noticed her disheveled state after almost two days of wandering and guided her back to society. As for why she must be an alien, not far from where she woke up she noticed a small crater, pieces of debris, and a blue, star shaped creature lying unconscious within. Feeling an odd sense of kinship with it urged her to carry it along with her, and it seemed content to stay by her side after waking. No doubt it understood the security offered by a companion who thought to protect it while asleep, and it willingly accepted proper capture upon Rina's reintegration into the world. She was informed of Minior's interstellar origins and came to the conclusion that they were two extraterrestrial beings who must have crash landed on Earth.
Nyx tries to laugh it off at first before realizing Rina is dead serious. The idea is ridiculous enough to draw a bout of sarcasm from her, and in a moment of poor judgment, she snidely remarks that Rina should simply just fly back to outer space if she's so worried about the disconnect between her and other humans. Rina proceeds to take Nyx more seriously than perhaps anyone has in her entire life and takes a Swanna dive off the roof of the bar. Nyx has a moment of poor judgment that puts the last one to shame and quickly follows suit, calling her Mandibuzz out just in the nick of time to save the both of them. After much yelling and no apologies on the part of Rina, who matter-of-factly states she was just doing exactly as Nyx told her, Nyx realizes that leaving Rina to her own devices is liable to get her killed.
So she strikes up a proposition: Why not travel with her? Maybe by exploring the region they could discover more about Rina's origins, this way Rina has someone to guide her through a world that feels alien to her and Nyx doesn't have to worry about Rina wandering off on her own and getting herself killed. Rina lights up and notes that Nyx could use it as a chance to complete the league challenge she left unfinished as well. While Nyx is about to refute the idea she stops for a second. She had already left all her old prospects behind her, there were no obligations barring her from chasing old dreams, and even if the idea reeked of mid-life crisis despite her only being in her early twenties, she couldn't resist the appeal. And thus the two set off, one to find her old self, and the other to leave it behind.
Potential plot beats and misc thoughts
-So this one's the most fleshed out idea I suppose? But it also leans into Pokemon's more sci-fi elements and gets super out there, and has lots of bits I think might put some audiences off lol.
-The Big Major Plot Twist is that Rina is in fact, not quite human. She's an artificial human, AND a Pokemon-human hybrid to boot.
-You didn't stop reading then and there? Sweet. I haven't charted everything out yet but "Rina" isn't even her name, it's just derived from the fact that "PROJ.RNA" was written on the iron crate she was dumped in. She's the result of a research project funded by Team Flare for the study of immortality just in case the ultimate weapon didn't get the job done.
-As you might've guessed from RNA, the Pokemon she's supposed to be a hybrid of is Deoxys, which iirc has shown it can regenerate in the anime. But she's a failure on most accounts because she displays no potential for superhuman feats. In fact, the researchers were completely unable to get her conscious, making her essentially a lifeless doll. When funding got cut after Flare's plans were foiled they dumped her out in the wilderness hoping wild Pokemon would just eat her and dispose of the evidence.
-It is true that Rina has no superhuman abilities......Mostly. However, we all know Pokemon are able to rapidly advance, evolve, and show the ability to adapt to new environments. Rina had no need for conscious action and thought within the lab environment because it was safe, completely sterile, and her needs were accounted for without any action on her behalf. Exposed to the elements and without the constant efforts of staff to keep her in optimal conditions she "evolved"; Her cognitive functions and senses developing rapidly in order to get her to the point she could operate in the new environment.
-Her backstory is slowly revealed throughout her and Nyx's journey, when they encounter another crate with the same PROJ.RNA label dumped in the wilderness Rina insists they scan the area, and careful searching allows them to hone in on an abandoned research facility. It's mostly empty save for some kind of lead, a few pages of a report, a diary entry of the project head etc. However, it would be guarded by a powerful Pokemon.
-This becomes a pattern: Find and investigate an old research facility, battle and have Rina catch the guardian Pokemon, discover some evidence revealing more of Rina's backstory. Her final team would be Elgyem, Solosis, Sigilyph, Porygon-Z, and Minior this way.
-While Nyx's plot would center around her building up her sense of confidence, overcoming her self-sabotaging nature, and essentially having an "if you love something let it go and if it doesn't come back it was never yours at all" type development with Rina, Rina's would be about feelings of alienation and realizing that even if it feels like you’re all alone in the world, if you just keep trying, eventually you’ll find the people you can form meaningful connections with.
-I also just kinda think it’s romantic for a girl who has everything she needs but still rejects her place in the world to fall in love with a girl who pretty much has nothing and has to carve out a place for herself.
-I’m admittedly a bit unsure of what the climax of the story would be but it would obviously have Rina befriend and temporarily control Deoxys and fight alongside Nyx against whatever the big threat ends up being. I know I said she doesn’t have any special abilities but I do like to think she’s capable of communicating with it in a way most earthly beings can’t. After this the two converse and it offers to take her with it back to outer space. Seeing as a hostile environment triggered Rina’s ability to function normally, it’s entirely possible that she could similarly evolve to live in space alongside “her kind” if introduced to the depths of the cosmos. It assures her while it may seem cold and lonely in space, while their kind are few, they are.
-Nyx sees Rina seemingly about to leave for space and while it devastates her she doesn’t do anything to stop her.
-While Rina considers the idea she ultimately decides not to, instead insisting that she’s shackled by earth’s gravity. She asks for Deoxys to release her and dives for Nyx, and so we begin and end the story with her cradled in Nyx’s arms.
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OPTION 2: TOXIC (TRADITIONAL EARTH BALLAD BY BRITNEY SPEARS)
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There, across the bar from Nyx, sits a stunning woman in a lab coat whose ruby red eyes promise....Well. Not a good time, but an interesting one at the very least. And Nyx’s heart is going to lead her places most wouldn’t even go with a gun. Taking a chance that would have a seasoned gambler like Grimsley go pale in the face, Nyx stumbles over to the empty seat next to the brunette and introduces herself.
Cerise, as she learns, is more than just a pretty face, and in fact is a research head for a well renowned organization that’s studying mega evolution (name pending). And of course, as an excellent judge of character, Cerise can tell Nyx is a trainer who has quite a bit of experience and untapped potential. She can see it in the smolder of determination burning in Nyx’s eyes. Or at least that’s what she purrs as edges closer, knowing that she’s more or less got Nyx wrapped around her finger.
Cerise is in fact a fairly good judge of character, but those readings were informed by the fact that she saw Nyx whip out her old badge case while complaining to Stella earlier, not to mention nobody in a stable state of mind cuts their own bangs. Like a Sharpedo smelling blood in the water, she seizes the chance to have her own little grunt to do some dirty work for her. She promises that if Nyx can just do a few small favors for little ol’ her, she’ll make it well worth the other woman’s time, and brandishes a mega bracelet to back up her talk.
You see, she loves her work, she really does. And because she loves her work, she’s just a tad worried about if it’s getting put to good use, and so she’ll need Nyx to do a little......Recon work for her. And if things are worse than she thought, mayhaps just a little bit of property damage, some toying with the security team, if Nyx wants she can even do some measured assault, doesn’t that sound fun?
Nyx actually thinks it sounds pretty terrifying but Cerise insists, though it’s hard to think about how hard she’s pushing Nyx into a corner metaphorically when she’s also doing it literally. Unable to resist the begging of a pretty woman or the call of power promised by access to mega evolution, Nyx reluctantly accepts, steeling herself by thinking about how not only is this going to force her out of her self-doubting behavior but also help someone she sees herself in, one betrayed employee to another.
Plot Beats and misc thoughts
-Rather than focus on Nyx finishing the league, this one has her and Cerise adopt a “soldier” and “mission control” dynamic, Cerise directing Nyx on how to best infiltrate facilities and providing tips on how to prepare for certain guards/encounters beforehand.
-The reason Cerise has one hand gloved is that she was injured by some kind of experiment gone wrong, one she already warned her superiors about, but rather than stop the project after the incident they merely ordered everyone to keep quiet about it. I’m not sure to what level of severity I want to go with, but I’m considering giving Cerise a prosthetic hand.
-Thing is, the above happened a long time ago, and Cerise simply kept quiet and continued to work as a good employee in the hopes that maybe, when she had a higher position on the organizational food chain, they would take her complaints about safety and ethics more seriously. Needless to say, things stayed the same, and Cerise’s optimism shriveled and died a bit more with each year spent working.
-At this point, she’s bitter and cynical enough that she just wants to cause some havoc without getting her own hands dirty or putting herself in the line of fire, she doesn’t actually care all that much about to what purposes her work is being used for but her moral justifications are meant to hook Nyx.
-Unfortunately for Cerise, Nyx’s unwavering trust in her is very endearing, and a couple missions in, her little disposable pawn isn’t all that disposable anymore.
-I’m not sure how this story concludes but I would want Nyx’s ultimately optimistic outlook on life and courage to break away from oppressive systems to melt through Cerise’s defenses. They expose how Cerise’s employers are up to shady business, probably something like forced mega evolution and mass produced mega stones or some such. The opportunity to betray Nyx for her own benefit presents itself but Cerise can’t bring herself to go through with it and they fight through the final challenge together.
-While not as much of a fighter as Nyx, Cerise can mega evolve her Beedrill, and I’d imagine her team has a Galarian Weezing, Hypno, Arbok, and Toxapex.
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OPTION 3: DID IT HURT? (WHEN YOU BROKE THROUGH THE EARTH’S CRUST ON YOUR ASCENT FROM HELL)
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.......Wait a damn second. She knew those twin beauty marks anywhere. That wasn’t a stranger at all. In fact, the beautiful woman on the bar TV screen was painfully familiar to Nyx. It was almost hard to recognize her in her ostentatious outfit, but the girl had to be none other than Seraphina, an on and off companion and full time rival of Nyx’s. At least, that’s what they were back in the day.
As in, the girl who Nyx spent vast chunks of time exploring oceans, caves, rolling hills and valleys with. The girl who she carefully watched over as they slept in shifts in remote areas where the Pokemon were known to be a little more volatile. The girl who she had to comfort over every loss she suffered and the one who would insufferably tease Nyx each and every time she won. The girl who promised she would always be Nyx’s friend through thick and thin even though the two had their bouts of petty bickering and squabbling.
The girl who Nyx totally blew off and ghosted when she quit being a trainer, too ashamed to look in the eyes anymore.
The girl who was badmouthing Nyx on TV right this second. Nyx stares at the screen mouth agape as the dainty young lass, with posture and poise as angelic as her name implied, gave her inaugural speech as the head of a newly opened battle facility. She attributed her drive and success to none other than “a girl she used to know” who “relentlessly bullied her and put her down, but only served to strengthen her desire to bond with her Pokemon to prove her wrong.” Nyx would have given her the benefit of the doubt and assumed she was talking about someone, anyone else, until Seraphina tells stories that were obviously about her with some key twists of the details.
Nyx’s switch flips from “flabbergasted” to “incoherent bitch” in a matter of seconds. If she weren’t friends with the bartender the bouncer surely would have dragged her out for drunkenly cussing at the TV screen. Stella manages to calm her down and exasperatedly tells Nyx that if she wants to give Seraphina a piece of her mind, her best bet is to simply climb the ranks at that battle facility and tell her directly.
Plot beats and misc notes
-The least going on here but the rivals to enemies to friends dynamic might be something? Somehow it’s like the two are exes even though they never dated.
-This is notably the route that leaves Nyx without a travel companion of sorts, so I suppose in this instance there would probably be a lot more focus on her inner thoughts and interactions with whatever the side cast ends up being.
-I admittedly haven’t imagined the gimmick or setup of Seraphina’s facility yet, something princess or angel themed, as that is generally what I was going for with her design and her public persona as a sweetheart who can do no wrong.
-I think at some point BEFORE Nyx climbs to the top of that facility she and Seraphina cross paths by chance. The latter refuses to listen to anything the former has to say though and Nyx promises that she’s going to take Seraphina down herself if that’s what it takes for her to acknowledge her again.
-Seraphina’s a tsundere through and through, she probably does little things to support Nyx’s journey in secret.
-Nyx is completely torn between wanting to tear Seraphina to shreds and go back to being companions, so I guess she is too lol.
-Y’know how Nyx has an Absol? In this path it’d be replaced with something like a Mawile or Audino, and the Absol would instead be on Seraphina’s team. This is because the two would have traded Pokemon in the past as a sign of friendship, and mega Absol fits in with Seraphina’s angelic theming.
-Seraphina’s team is likely something like Togekiss (ace), Swanna, Absol, Espatra, Tsareena, and Skarmory