Psuedo-legendaries are always fun to do! This is an odd one for me, since I can give a rough estimate of how long this took to do. Given I started in March (conceptualization), roughly ten months. Let's see some Dex entries!
#147 Proteus: "This ancient Pokemon is elusive and lives in caves. It's rarity causes some researchers to doubt its existence."
#148 Protojna: "It is unknown how this blind Pokemon senses its environment. It has been observed standing still in a pool of water for twenty-five consecutive months."
#149 Proterminus: "This Pokemon angrily fumbles around its environment. After years of torpor, it hungrily devours whatever it finds."
This line is based on the blind cave salamander mixed in with folk elements of the Olm. While I'm fully sure that an olm Pokemon designed by Game Freak would be Dragon-type, I knew even back in March that I wanted to make a Normal-type blind cave Pokemon, and what more iconic than the olm? These sprites have Chansey's coloration, though was that because it had the right shade of pink or because it had axolotl gills?
Proterminus had sprite parts from Druddigon (atrophied wings), Dragonair (gills), Magikarp (whiskers), and Golduck (arms). Protojna had Dratini gills because I thought it'd be neat if Proterminus had the most-developed and flowery gills.
Their movepools are probably what you'd expect: Surf, Rest, Stockpile, etc.
I actually made these little snoms a couple years ago (before I even started this blog) just for fun & didn't wanna leave them lying forgotten in my folders so I turned them into wallpapers :D
(Pixel@Obsidian) “It is a pleasure to meet you,” he spoke in his usual monotone voice, “May I ask how you came to be the mayor of this town? I’m sure it comes with many responsibilities.”
“But I do enjoy what I do, Lumina Town is usually very peaceful.” Obsidian seemed to think for a moment. “As for how I ended up in this position… While there were a few others that wanted to be mayor, I just ended up being the better fit, and a lot of the townsfolk like me.”
Hey, idk how long it's been, but I've been cooking! I've always thought Druddigon was underrated, as many fans bemoan its lack of flying ability, general competitive incompetence, and ugly design. (Hey, it's ugly, but a realistically designed world is going to have some ugly animals.) Anyhoo, I think it's pretty neat. Move below the fold:
I've renamed this version Dimeter. I've enjoyed the idea of a dimetrodon Pokemon having this name. The idea comes from the sail collecting sunlight (as reptiles are apt to do) and the Pokemon's capybara-like demeaner enriching the land.
This design started with a desire to take a Pokemon and bend it so much that it kept a lot of elements from its original design, yet still felt like a new thing compared to the original. Of course, this sprite still has pieces from Feraligatr and Nidorino, but most of this mon is Druddigon.
I can see this mon having Solar Power or a renamed Chlorophyll as an ability, perhaps something akin to Flower Guard. I can see it learning your standard dinosaur (despite not being a dinosaur) fare and things like Rototiller.
The sail gave me some trouble, but hopefully each attempt after this gets better and better!
I figured out today that my supervisor at work thinks that I've been "taking notes" on how to run the printer/do my job in general, because I'm moving to nights (bc fuuuuuuccckkk waking up at 6 am, also i wanna spend time with my child) and he said I was doing a good job but to "keep taking lots of notes! You've about filled that notebook up, but it will come in handy later!" ........Sir this notebook is full of ninja turtle (and usagi) fanfic. I'm supposed to be taking notes????? On what? I push the green button and the cup goes into the printer and gets sprayed w ink and a pretty (objective) picture comes out on it, this is not rocket science.