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himbofan · 3 months

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Warm Respite

(Grusha x gn!reader fluff)

this was a request by a lovely anon!

this pushed me out of my comfort zone, so thank you for requesting (ง’̀-‘́)ง i hope i did your request justice!!

this was inspired by grusha’s event quest in pokémon masters, where malva provokes him about his snowboarding career

as always pls tell me your thoughts!! i love hearing feedback even if it’s critical

thank you for reading ^_^

characters: grusha (pokémon)

wc: ~600

cw: gn!reader, fluff, cuddles, holding hands, forehead kisses

Warm light bathed the room as the soft crackles of the fireplace broke the silence. You sat curled up in the corner of the couch with a book, waiting for Grusha to come home.

Snow was coming down in thick flakes outside the window as you heard the front door give a soft click.

You smiled and turned to see your boyfriend coming home from a long day at the gym, a multitude of snowflakes littering his sky-blue hair.

Grusha shuffled about the foyer shedding his heavy winter gear, and the sagging slouch of his shoulders told you that it had been a long day indeed.

He simply plopped down on the couch next to you with a huff.

You closed your book and set it on the coffee table then reached over and squeezed his hand, rubbing your thumb soothingly over his knuckles. He squeezed back lightly, his icy fingers clinging to the warmth of your palm.

“Long day?” you opened your arms and leaned back on the arm of the couch.

“Something like that.” he mumbled and immediately accepted the silent invitation, melting into your arms and laying his head on your chest.

You wrapped your arms around him, lightly tracing soothing lines on his back.

“Wanna talk about it?”

He closed his eyes and sighed deeply, listening to the steady thudding of your heartbeat.

“There was a rude interviewer at the gym today… it was like she was purposefully trying to get under my skin with her questions.”

You simply hummed in acknowledgement, running your hands through his silky blue locks, massaging his scalp. His chest rumbled against yours as he made a noise of approval, melting further under your fingers.

“Mmm that’s annoying…”

“I held my tongue so she never got the reaction she was obviously trying to get, but it was still aggravating.”

You continued to chat casually about menial things, the words seemed to flow as naturally as breathing.

Grusha could feel his sour mood melt away with every passing word, your sweet voice always put him at ease.

The usually cool and collected gym leader was like soft putty in your hands as soon as he felt your loving touch. You were his cozy hearth he longed to return to after every draining day at work.

In your arms, he was home.

He would never admit that to anyone but you. It’s you who is his greatest weakness, the loving warmth that melted his icy exterior.

“...oh and a little girl asked me if I was a prince today.”

You giggled, “What did you say?”

“I told her I was, but she had to keep my identity a secret.” he smiled gently as he recounted the scene.

His big dark blue eyes and long fluttering eyelashes gazed up at you, quietly admiring the smile on your face.

“Well she’s right y’know, ‘cuz you’re my super-duper handsome prince charming.” you spoke with an sickeningly sweet tone and made a sappy kissy face dramatically as you spoke.

He simply scoffed and rolled his eyes but the lovestruck smile on his face never left.

Eventually as the conversation dwindled he stopped responding, his breaths growing slow and steady as he dozed off, the exhaustion finally catching up to him.

You simply smiled and pressed a kiss to the top of his head, stroking his hair softly as the fireplace crackled gently in the background.

“Rest well, my lovely prince.”

#my work #pokemon x reader #grusha x reader #pokémon x reader #gn reader #sfw #fluff #grusha fluff #requests #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarlet x reader #pokemon violet x reader #pokemon scarlet and violet x reader #pokemon scarvi x reader

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monsoon-of-art · 6 months

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This isn’t related to anything you’ve posted lately I just had the thought and wanted to share it with someone who likes the characters of PL:A so I thought of you, sorry if that’s weird:

Kamado always says “people are still suspicious” when you finish quests and stuff, and I think most everyone reads that as “I, Kamado, am still suspicious” but what if he’s being literal. There are people in the village who saw you fall from the rift, who still fear the unknown deity that launched a humanoid into their mix, who think you are a witch. You have, from their view miles away, sent golden bolts of lightning into sky to exacerbate the rift. Now the sky has turned to blood due to your actions and they demand Kamado kill the witch. They line the street to watch you be marched out to your execution.

But instead of killing you, Kamado gets you out. He tells you till the sky is fixed you are banished. He specifically has his master swordsman accompany you as you walk out, to protect you from the mob. He “turns a blind eye” to you still using the camps to rest. He had once introduced you to the new arrivals as one of his best surveyors, he had complimented how you have made Hisui safer with Pokémon. He knows you’ve survived in the wild before.

Then he tries to help you by stabbing god himself while you’re away.

If Beni wanted to kill you, he could have knifed you in the back. Beni was DELAYING you. Delaying you to keep you away from the mad god and away from any armed Security Corps who may have turned their blades on you if you had shown up while Kamado handles it. Kamado is doing what a leader should—facing a threat himself instead of sending a child. Notably I don’t think he ever asked you to quell Kleavor, just observe, and he only assigned you to quell the others after you proved you could do so. In the same vein, when you proved to Kamado you could stop the mad god yourself he stands down, and immediately welcomes you back. Now that an audience has SEEN you stop a mad god, they know you aren’t against them now. The rumors are defused.

It makes as much sense as anything else. Why else would he so easily let you pass if he has a sword of his own, unless he never hated you to begin with?

Those are really fun interpretations! And honestly I'm getting tired of people painting Kamado and Beni as villains, tbh

Like yeah Kamado's decision is kinda shitty but like there's a little nuance here guys-

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sage-nebula · 3 months

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When Kieran joins Masters EX, his partner should be Hydrapple. But when / if he gets a Sygna Suit, his partner then should be Pecharunt, because color scheme aside, the two are so much alike that it has to be on purpose.

Unfortunately, a lot of the similarities are relegated to Pecharunt’s backstory video on the official Pokémon YouTube channel, which is really disappointing and yet another way that the severe time crunch these games / DLC are released under hurts the finished product. Nonetheless, here’s a brief summary of the video in case you missed it:

Pecharunt was found by an elderly couple in a distant land who, having no children of their own, decided to adopt him. They loved him, but Pecharunt, feeling that he wanted even more of their love, decided to feed them some of his special mochi that he created from the poison inside his shell. This poison drew out the old couple’s greed, and they began to send him on errands to collect things for them. To make these quests easier, Pecharunt recruited Okidogi as a retainer to bring things back to the old couple’s home. Eventually, the old couple requested that Pecharunt bring them some special masks from the land of Kitakami, and Pecharunt, having grown bored of the routine tasks he’d been given, agreed. Pecharunt used his special mochi to bring Fezandipiti and Munkidori on as retainers as well, and together the four traveled to Kitakami in order to steal the masks. This led to Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti killing Ogerpon’s trainer during the theft, and Ogerpon killing the Loyal Three as revenge. She nearly killed Pecharunt as well, but instead Pecharunt managed to roll into the woods and fall into a deep coma, eventually coming to rest as a “plushie” at Peachy’s for an untold number of years after (i.e. until the Mochi Madness epilogue took place).

So to recap: Pecharunt was loved by the old couple that took him in, but he wanted more than what he was given and used his mochi to try to get that. Things ended up spiraling out of control, and he almost died because of it.

Sound familiar?

When we first meet Kieran in the Teal Mask, we’re given the impression that he’s a friendless boy who is bereft of any real battling skill, friends, or opportunities. In fact, I think Kieran himself tells us that he doesn’t have any friends (or at least leads us to believe as such when he gets so excited at the fact that MC wants to be friends with him). But Carmine is quick to tell us that Kieran is actually really strong in terms of battling ability (and also that he hates to lose, which is foreshadowing his later fall from grace), and while their entire family is ostracized in the village (it’s very obvious that Carmine isn’t well-liked either), two things become very obvious once we arrive at Blueberry Academy in the Indigo Disk:

1.) The only bully at Blueberry Academy is Kieran himself

2.) No one at Blueberry Academy had issues with Kieran before his field trip to Kitakami

After the Mochi Madness epilogue, when speaking to Kieran in the League Club room, he mentions that it used to bother him that he had a Kitakami accent when no one else did at Blueberry Academy. (Specifically that he “talks different because he’s from Kitakami”). Note that he isn’t saying that others made fun of him for having an accent; this is a problem that Kieran himself had, which fits in to how Kieran tends to project his own insecurities onto others and blow them up into issues of his own creation. The other League Club members, sans perhaps Drayton, don’t seem to have had any issue with Kieran prior to his becoming Champion and becoming a bully, and Lacey, Amarys, and Crispin all seem more than willing to welcome him back once he is defeated and willing to try again. Even Drayton, while teasing him about being an “ex-champ,” does so while asking what Kieran is eating for dinner nowadays — a roundabout way of checking up on him, to see not really what, but if he’s eating, since we know he wasn’t before.

In other words: It’s highly likely that Kieran wasn’t friendless at Blueberry Academy before. And we know, too, that his family loves him (yes, his entire family—take it from someone who did have an abusive older sister, Carmine never once abuses him, she teases him just as any normal older sister would and it’s clear how much they mutually love each other). Furthermore, while he throws his little hissy fits over losing battles to the MC, we know exactly why that is, because Carmine tells us why that is at the beginning of the Teal Mask: it’s because Kieran hates to lose. Kieran is seriously strong, she says. He’s very good at battling. This is why he was in the League Club to begin with, which I’m pretty sure he was even before they went on the Kitakami field trip, even though he wasn’t the Champion then. Kieran was already strong, but the strength he had just wasn’t good enough because he was losing to MC. Being friends with MC wasn’t good enough once he had to share their friendship with Carmine. His pokémon weren’t good enough when they weren’t Ogerpon / when they lost to MC, and so on and so forth. Like Pecharunt, Kieran wanted more.

And what did he do to get it? Anything he could, regardless of the feelings of others.

See, here is the thing about Pecharunt’s powers: Pecharunt’s mochi is a mind-altering substance. Pecharunt’s poison (game mechanics aside) doesn’t kill, but rather, it alters the mind in order to “draw out the desires and innate abilities” of those it affects. It draws out the greed of the victims, but it also binds them to Pecharunt’s will. In all the cases we have so far, Pecharunt’s will is to have them love him. He wanted the old couple to love him. He wanted Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti to help him retrieve things so the old couple would love him more, but also, presumably, to be his friends. (Which is why he reacts so furiously if you send any of the three against him — he sees this as a betrayal on their part.) It’s unclear if Pecharunt is consciously stripping people and other pokémon of their will, or if he just thinks that his mochi is so damn delicious that they really love him more, but I have to think it’s a little column A, little column B. At the very least, he knew that he was getting the items requested of him and he ordered the Loyal Three to steal the masks. He had enough intelligence to plan the heist. So in that sense, he’s not completely clueless about what’s going on. It’s just whether he knew that he had subjugated the Loyal Three utterly or not that’s in question.

Regardless — back to Kieran.

Kieran, obviously, doesn’t have any mind controlling mochi. But much like Pecharunt feeds people and pokémon mochi to make them do what he wants / needs them do regardless of what they might think or feel about it, Kieran also makes it clear that (prior to his Heel Face Turn at the end of Indigo Disk), the feelings of others don’t matter very much when it comes to what he wants either. When Ogerpon makes it known that she wants to keep traveling with the MC (whom she has spent the entire Teal Mask portion of the DLC bonding with), Kieran decides that he wants to battle for the right to keep her, and dismisses Carmine pointing out that he should consider Ogerpon’s feelings. In the Indigo Disk, when he sees that Terapagos imprints on the MC, he throws a Master Ball and captures it, stripping it of any choice whatsoever, not unlike Pecharunt throwing mind-controlling mochi in people’s mouths during the epilogue.

Both Pecharunt and Kieran also take perceived slights extremely personally. With Kieran, there is a lot of evidence toward this, from Kieran deciding on his own that Carmine and the MC must have been making fun of him behind his back at the Festival of Masks to him lashing out at Carmine for befriending the MC while trying to yank Terapagos free in the Indigo Disk. With Pecharunt there is precious little evidence, but as I mentioned earlier, if you send one of the Loyal Three to battle Pecharunt in Mochi Madness, Pecharunt has an angry, betrayed reaction — even though none of the Loyal Three have any choice in the matter and cannot have betrayed Pecharunt willingly. (Much like how Carmine never intended to hurt Kieran’s feelings by befriending the MC, and likewise, MC didn’t do anything wrong by befriending Carmine either.)

All of this is to say, Kieran and Pecharunt have a lot in common. Both have shades of entitlement, selfishness, and greed. The primary difference is, by the end of the Indigo Disk, Kieran has started to try to move past his, while Pecharunt’s is “solved” by being captured. So why should they be paired up in Masters EX?

Well, that’s simple:

While we all know my feelings about how Kieran was written, setting that aside, Game Freak says that he’s all better now. However, Pecharunt isn’t. But if Kieran is all better now, then I think there is no one better to teach Pecharunt how to be better than someone who was in his shoes. Someone who can say, “Hey, I know how you’re feeling, and I understand the temptation, but maybe instead of poisoned mochi we can eat some candy apples instead.” Tie a neat little bow on all that character development. Finish off Kieran’s redemption while also showing that Pecharunt has had some growth, too. Plus, it keeps with the fruit theming for Kieran; first he gets an apple, now he gets a peach. Maybe his third pokémon partner could be a Cherrim.

Those are my thoughts, anyway. We’ll see what DeNA actually does with him.

#pokemon #mochi madness spoilers #trainer kieran #pecharunt #meta #kieran critical #not really but i know how kieran's stans are 🙄#pokemas #pokemon masters ex

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thequantumranger · 8 months

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Pokémon: Master Quest (2001-2002)

#pokemon #pocket monsters #pokemonedit #animationedit #cartoons & anime #mine:pokemon #mine

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mono-red-menace · 1 year

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#sorry i couldn't fit all the games from each generation starting in gen 4 #i also didn't include the anime bc of the character limit

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zponds · 1 month

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(Credit goes to JWBtheUncanny on Deviantart)

Pokemon QOTCS: Friends of Ash PreCure Forms 2

As Requested by my Good friend MLPFan053, for the Pokémon Quest for the Crystal Skulls Event, We figured Ash shouldn't be the only one to have a Statues as a PreCure, Why not have his Buddies Join on the Action,

Clemont AKA Cure Inventor In this form, Clemont has more knowledge in Technology mixed with the Power of the PreCure's, Even more Advanced then Doctor Traum's Inventions, Even to the point of Creating Robots that Resemble Humans and Animals (Hopfully not going the same way Horizon Zero Dawn did) This is all due to the Blue-Prints inside Clemont's mind, As a PreCure he has the Ability to Take control of Any Machine that can use to his Advantage, He is skilled in Combat with some tricks in his Sleeves, Or in his case, His Bag, He does become the Partner to Tails (For his Costume..... I pretty much took inspiration from the Costume Designs of the Movie TRON: Legacy)

Bonnie AKA Cure Static In this form, Bonnie has the Ability to Control and manipulate Static Electricity, Which can be on the came level as an Electric Type Pokémon, But even she know her Limits as she would be mentored by Cure Peace later on. She can be bit of a Battery for some of Clemont's Attacks.

Serena AKA Cure Guardian In this form Serena isn't just a Protector for her Friends and Ash Ketchum, But she is a powerful PreCure Paladin, Who can use the Holy Light of the Plasma Spark to Heal those in need, But can use it on the Defensive, And her skills in Swords play with her Blade of Holy-Light are on par with Cure Master's Skills in Combat. (Your probably wondering how I was able to come up with her costume...… Well Truth be told I took a massive Gamble and Based aspects of it from this vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/sw…..... And I'm fairly sure many of you know what Series if from, What can I say, I need fresh material and.... gotta Admit, It's a really cool looking Armour set)

#pokemon #pocket monsters #precure #pretty cure #pokemon clemont #cure inventor #pokemon bonnie #cure static #pokemon serena #cure guardian #fancure #pokemon art #pokemon fanart #precure art #precure fanart

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kaiju-wolfdragon · 6 months

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Quest for the giant Pokémon curse page 37-41

He got them....

#my oc art #g/t #g/t art #quest for the giant pokémon curse #g/t comic #blazebird #wavey #tycore #spytro #pokémon g/t #pokémon oc #pokémon #the master of the giant pokémon curse #delta #melody #timper

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doubleddenden · 4 months

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Okay I had a whole thing typed that was my review for the new Pokémon dropped in Indigo Disk, but tumblr ate it, so take 2

Starting with my favorite, Archaludon. It's a dragon, a kaiju, also a stapler remover, also a bridge with power cables inside. This is a really cool design overall and fixes what I dislike about Duraludon, and it's fun to play with. 9/10

Hydrapple fixes what I dislike about Dipplin, but does make Flapple and Appletun a bit obsolete. Regardless, it's a fun idea and concept- I love that 7 Syrpents (which I guess aren't individually pokemon on their own? Slowbro Shelder situation I guess) make up 1 pokemon. It's silly but fun. 8/10

Also these two are neat because the concepts tie into New York/ Unova if we look at it through lense of Archaludon's Sky Arrow Bridge being based on Brooklyn Bridge and Rainbow Bridge, and Hydrapple clearly being a Big Apple reference. Very creative

Onto the paradoxes

Raging Bolt is interesting. I prefer Raikou, and I'll be the first to admit that I do not give a shit about how many cultural or historical references are in a design, if it looks like shit its a shit design. But this design is pretty okay, and because of that I can appreciate ALL of the inspirations that went into its design.

First off, with the Beast Paradoxes drawing inspiration from dinosaurs, we have Raging Bolt as the Thunder Lizard- aka Brontosaurus. That alone is meat, but it's still pretty mammalian compared to Walking Wake- that's because there's references to something called a Questing Beast. In Medieval times, before the age of cameras or fact checking, a description of an animal far far away- such a giraffe- can get twisted abd distorted via several games of telephone until we get to a creature that combines the lower body of a leopard and deer and the neck and head of a snake- aka the Questing Beast. Raging Bolt plays a bit with all of these ideas in a pretty unique and fun way. 8/10

Iron Crown- admittedly the Justice Paradoxes suffer a bit from the same "just make it a robot" mentality that plagues other Violet Paradoxes, but the Swords of Justice got the better end of it, I'd say. Iron Crowns in particular actually fixes what I hate about Cobalion by adding segments to the legs and thus making them feel less like bipedal knees on a quadrupedal animal.

It's signature move, Tachyon Cutter, also looks so cool in action by making the horns HUGE and GLOWING. That's awesome imo. 8/10

And now the new paradoxes we knew were coming

Gouging Fire, Entei's Paradox. I'll say that I like it, although this is the least changed of the Beasts and is basically just Entei in a fancy hat. Hey, that's fine though.

The dinosaur Entei is based on is some kind of ceratopsian blend. I personally thought they'd go in that direction with a triceratops design, so I was close. The head dress piece actually gives me Ho-Oh vibes, in particularly the gold and greens, which could be purposeful and root the Beasts Paradoxes back to the Beast's master, Ho-Oh. Fun design, 8/10

Iron Boulder. This one imo is more of the "robot" angle but done in a very good way. I like Terrakion best out of the Swords to begin with, but only at certain angles in 2d (they murdered him in SV. Murdered. He looks like a cross eyed frog now.) Iron Boulder takes the bulky build of Terrakion and makes it work better in 3d by incorporating spherical and cone builds along its body and head.

It definitely looks the LEAST like a psychic type out if any psychic type I've ever seen, but that's fine. Like Iron Crown with its twin horns and Iron Leaves with its 3 blades, Iron Boulder has a cool looking sword move- his turns his two larger horns into ONE MASSIVE GLOWING BLADE. THAT'S REALLY COOL! 8/10

And now. The Boy

Terapagos is a cute design that becomes more elegant, refined, and Stellar as it becomes stronger. While I'm a bit disappointed at how they handled it in story after a year of build up, I do think the designs after it's base form are incredibly detailed and creative.

The type patterns on its shell actually shift and change smoothly to other types, and the Terastilized form is even more incredible by representing every type plus a hat version of its original form. Beautiful, yet imposing, and a tad silly. The dome is an interesting take that I believe might represent the world or perhaps even a larger turtle- the design could reference one of many World Turtle mythologies and possibly have it represent a planet in space, or maybe a Turtle floating in the ocean, perhaps it's even a reference to the Tale of Urashima Taro. If Terapagos was available in Blueberry Academy- which I think it started out that way in planning- it could even represent the Terarium itself. Perhaps a deeper story was originally planned but dropped- like the castles and gigantic tree of Crown Tundra.

Regardless, base form is a 6/10. Its cute but kinda pointless. The other forms though are 8/10 though for incredible execution, wonderful and pleasing use of color, and overall just being great.

This batch of new Pokémon is way better than Teal Mask's, let's be real. For the paradoxes, I'll say the Future ones got better after Iron Leaves, while Walking Wake was the peak for the Beasts. Ogerpon wins for cutest legendary with the best build up, but Terapagos definitely wins for best design. This batch is an everall 8/10

#pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarlet and violet spoilers #Indigo disk #the indigo disk #indigo disk spoilers #Archaludon #hydrapple #terapagos #iron crown #iron boulder #raging bolt #gouging fire #den reviews stuff

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