when your art block absolutely beats you up, you have to come up with some creative ways to get your ideas across for what people would look like. I was actually working on a different story when I wanted to go back to the kanto AU for a brief moment.
the end result was that i just ended up using characters from pokemon conquest and subsequent images from nobunga's ambition: ransei's picture scroll to get my idea across of "this is what i think they'd look like for this AU idea". It's clearly just images of Hanbei and Gracia, but please pretend that they're Blue and Green. Maybe one day I'll redraw them. And the OG image for patchworks as well since it deleted itself when I accidentally put down two read more sections.
Anyways, once I finish framing the dialogue and getting a different image to use I'll probably post the next patchworks because I've been struggling trying to juggle all my WIPs because I have a problem where I keep juggling them instead of pointing at one and going "I'll finish you first." I like to post them when they're done, not leave them on a cliffhanger. This is why I only get one shots up.
I enjoy reading Pokémon manga maybe a bit too much, and then my brain started thinking of character interactions between mangas. But a lot of them are kinda hard to find outside of special/adventures ever since the site I used to use got taken down. My concepts for crosssovers are less on plot and more on “how would they interact? Why pair these in particular?”
To alleviate this issue, I’ll be giving a brief summary of the mangas that are focused on in this segment and key characters. Some spoilers apply.
If you know pokemon manga, then you can skip this part over. If you don't, the glossary is here to introduce some of them.
"It is said that once every ten years, a child is born in Viridian Forest, possessing mysterious powers"--Pokespe (Sourced from Bulbapedia but I have no clue what arc this is from).
I recall the powers skipped over Silver, Yellow is 11 when the arc starts (but 8 during RGB), Giovanni is another one but he's in his 40s (according to another wiki, unless he's 30, which I don't buy.) , which means Lance must be somewhere in the 18-20 range and... yeah, there's no way I would've ever been able to figure that out with Mato's art style (I thought he was a teenager... in hindsight, this makes the yellow lance fight even funnier because this grown man gets blown up by a child). This just means there's some 30 year old person out in the Pokespe world who inexplicably has Viridian Forest powers and missed out on that world ending debacle.
I guess there could be other potential magic forests in the Pokemon world but that's clearly not a thing pokespe will probably ever touch again because it was a case of "we need something to fill the gap of time between G/S since it got delayed during spaceworld so we're just gonna... make something up for the yellow plot."
So possible candidates are Ilex in Johto (because Celebi), and Winding Woods in Kalos (because having it next to Pokemon Village and Snowbelle City seems more interesting than Santalune which is a map copy of viridian, plus Xerneas as the guardian of life).
I don't think Eterna forest is one solely because of the haunted mansion blocking out whatever potential magic there could be. I doubt the swords of justice would allow a person like that to exist in Unova because of their distrust of humans (N is not a part of the powers thing because he only has a base level understanding nor does he have the healing or mind reading powers and also I don't think he's 30 years old).
Blank slate protagonists that get personalities added to them in later iterations isn’t something that I’m not used to since I’ve played other games that have blank protags gain personalities elsewhere, but it is kind of funny when you’ve developed a personality that’s so completely noncanon because of the nature of blank slating.Like in my headcanons, Leaf is a girl who was raised in the 2000s and therefore has all of that cultural background applied to her— which is doubly noncanon because I’m applying a western experience to her. To me, this is a girl who was into dress up flash games and warrior cats who would have an Eevee sparkling rainbow blasting OC and say “rawr.” She was very happy when Sylveon existed. Her bike would be a skateboard and she would secretly be punk despite clearly being dressed like a prep girl. Her and the FRLG redesign of Red (Fire) are twins since I saw the manual as a kid and went “oh, they’re siblings since they both have brown hair.” She starts hanging around Misty and Erika more often because she tried dating the rival once and it didn’t work out.
They (Fire, Leaf… Terry) simultaneously exist with their gen 1 counterparts and their group is known as the successor trio. One day I’ll properly write about all my headcanons for other Pokémon protagonists which are a grabbag of either my own fics, Pokespe, or just me randomly making stuff up. I like to have my pokemon trainer characters be reflective of the time period their games came out sometimes so while Red has a Geocities page that died, Leaf would have the vibes of an NPC in THUG 2 and play guitar hero.
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