Finally Settled On Two OCs For This, Xenoblade 3 OC Thea And Helen The Old DnD Character I Barely Got

Pokemon Black: Eggcellent Edition

Doing an Egglocke in a Black romhack with some pals. We made ourselves the Gym Leaders and Elite Four, so I’m making my player character an OC instead of just myself this time.

Her name’s Luella. Originally from Vermilion City, her family recently moved to Nuvema Town and she decided she wanted to explore this new region on her own. Has way too much energy, absolutely will get lost while exploring Unova. Big fan of Yancy. Her family also has a pet Sandshrew at home. I’ll add more lore when it isn’t 1:30 AM and progress has been made in the playthrough.

In the game proper, the jukebox is an individual thing, but you know -you KNOW- in the fiction of the game's world, there are no fewer than 10 squid kids lined up at any one time all punching in 21 plays of Bang Bang Bing with one play of, I dunno, Bomb Rush Blush in the middle of it because they all think it's funny.

Working on Xenoblade OC lore once again

I really want to flesh out Colony Delta so it’s not just about Thea.

Location: We have no idea where Delta actually is, and it needs to go somewhere. Currently planning on having it be located in Millick Meadows (Aetia region) or the Syra Hovering Reefs (Keves Castle region, if Colony 15 can exist so close to Agnus Castle then Delta can be near Keves Castle). Might change if I get a better idea or we get some official info on where Delta is. I can’t remember if we saw Delta’s Ferronis at any point like in the flashback to Cammuravi’s fight with Ethel but if there’s no official design for it I really like the idea of it being some kind of serpentine dragon.

Characters: Did a bit of research into how many named NPCs are in each colony to find a good amount of other characters to include in Delta. There’s one lieutenant, two off seers, and eight other soldiers for a total of 11 NPCs in Delta. No idea where to even begin with naming any of them, the only Agnian NPC name I can remember is Foots, which is a weird name and I can’t unhear the accent Noah’s VA did for him when streaming Xenoblade 3. Still not the worst name in all of 3 though, Sena named some poor kid Biffteen. The Consul was also an issue since most of them die in other questlines, could’ve just made them Consul A but I did something different. Fiona’s Ascension quest involve finding notes from Consul I, which mention that there’s 26 Consuls, one for each letter of the alphabet. It’s possible for Consul I to die before the Consul S seen in game joins Moebius, so there had to have been another Consul S. And that’s Delta’s Consul because nothing can stop me.

here's a random pokemon generator.

i got ash-greninja. he's wet.

(personal favorite pokemon version of the poll here)

1. Yes they have to fight, 2. Tell me who’s fighting who in the tags! (I’ll add the most ridiculous combos in a reblog)

I miss Gen 2 shiny Magcargo, the blue lava is so cool.

While I'm sticking to home models for the main opinion polls, if you have any pokemkn suggestions for bonus polls to use the 2d sprites for, drop the mon below ^^

I beat Xenoblade X DE. I'll get to 100% survey eventually but beating Chapter 13 is good enough for now. Very spoilerly thoughts below.

I'm still not sure how I feel about the new ending. We spent all this time on Mira and then we just have to leave and find another planet because Mira's getting destroyed. All of Mira's mysteries (the auto translation, how the humans are still alive after the Lifehold got wrecked, Lao coming back, why no one can leave, L's people, the presence of a Telethia, J-bodies, probably more I'm forgetting) are just left to never be answered or just "it's because of the Ares" (also they forgot that the Ares is supposed to be a tandem skell). Maybe if this was a proper sequel instead of a bonus chapter they could've done more and gotten around to answering some questions before leaving Mira.

I do really like Volitaris and the final segment where you're searching for your party members and the spears to weaken Void. I think you can just rush to Void without weakening it or getting anyone back (especially if you have the Ares 90 like I did), but I wanted to explore and didn't want to leave anyone behind. It was nice getting to talk to everyone one last time too, I like most of BLADE. Al letting you pilot the Ares was another cool moment, don't know why Lao's ghost was there though (still feels weird knowing he's actually dead, spent a decade thinking he was alive). I'm not sure what's up next for the cast of X, I saw the planet and thought "holy shit it's the planet from Future Redeemed go fuck yourselves Saga fans the blue light isn't KOS-MOS" but then I saw it had a ring which the FR planet doesn't so I don't think they'll be interacting with anyone from the numbered games universe yet. Sure Al has his connection to the Ares which is powered by the Conduit but it left 2's universe so who knows where that thing is now.

Happy XDE exists though, it's still one of my favorite games despite it's flaws and it's no longer stuck on a whole different console.

So three of the people in Colony Delta are Blades. I know most Blades in Xenoblade 3 are just kind of generic and don't really show any connections to the Blade elements from 2 (I think the only exceptions are Sena, Nimue, and Cammuravi). I gave the Delta Blade trio elements because I think it'd be cool but I'm not sure how to show that in their designs.

Thea: She's the main OC in this project so she really needs to stand out like the heroes in game. She's an electric Blade. I've heard lightning can leave some neat patterns where it strikes so that could be used as the pattern for her ether lines, but I'm afraid of seeing how those marks would look on real people since I'm worried those images might look too gruesome (I'm weak).

Hilda: She's a dark Blade. Thinking about giving her some kind of space theme, but I don't have much more than that.

Ulrich: He's a wind Blade. Looked at Blades from Xenoblade 2 for inspiration and like half of the wind Blades there aren't even close to looking human. Some bird traits would be the easy thing to do but that might make him look too much like a High Entia.

My sleep schedule is fucked up so lets talk XenoCAVE before I pass out

-Placeholder name for the cave world is Cavius, after the planet from Kirby Super Star. Surface is still just called the surface for now. You'd spend most of the game in Cavius, but the endgame's on the surface. Surface is at least somewhat dangerous to the people of Cavius since they wouldn't be used to that much light, along with the presence of strong monsters. Leaning towards the party not fighting a god with but there's gotta be some strong opponent up there, maybe the person/people who are responsible for the surface becoming dangerous?

-The Nopon are here, they are in every universe. As for new races, there's a mostly humanoid race but with some sort of extra feature just to make things a bit more interesting (first thought was little horns like Fiona from 3 but I don't know character design man I'm no artist). Also think some kind of bat people would be neat, fits with the cave setting along with being neat. Might be a fourth race in Cavius if I can get a good idea but this is fine for now. Unsure on if there's any sapient life on the surface though. I'm all for the Nopon having Canadian accents, unsure if the whole cast would be Canadian with different regional accents for the races or if the others would have completely different accents.

-As for the party, only have a few ideas for them. Starting trio consists of protag boy with red sword and his two friends, one guy and one girl, they're all young adults (18-25). Gotta make their dynamic distinct from the Colony 9 trios though (and protag boy distinct from other protagonists in the series). There's an older woman (40s) as a mentor type since I think we deserve more older women, a kid (~10) who gets roped into this, and a Nopon girl because we need a proper female Nopon party member (Nene's locked to a side game and you can't even control Manana). Probably room for one more permanent party member based on previous games but it's better to focus on these six first.

Okay so I beat the story of Indigo Disk last night and I'm still processing all that. There will be some discussion of leaks along with story spoilers here.

Before getting into story stuff, I completed the Paldea and Kitakami dexs just before Indigo Disk released and the shiny charm is great. Found two shinies in the Terrarium already, Peaches the Slakoth and MArty the Axew.

Really liked the first part of the story, where you fight the BB Elite Four and learn more about what's been going on with Kieran since the end of Teal Mask. Fights were pretty tough, my team was level 100 but they aren't built for competitive battles seen here.

Did not expect Lacey to be related to Clay of all people, apparently it's confirmed that Drayton is related to Drayden but I must've missed that dialogue. No signs of Crispin or Amarys being related to old Unova characters, Crispin seems like he'd be related to Chili but there's nothing for Amarys.

I was waiting for that weird peach thing from that one Teal Mask cutscene to show up but it just never did? Apparently it's a mythical and we just don't have the event yet (seems like dataminers/hackers were able to trigger the event and have this little peach loser show up in game).

Second part of the story has the gang head down into a new part of Area Zero below the lab. Kieran using a Master Ball to catch Terapagos that broke when he Terastillized it was cool, and it was nice seeing Kieran go back to his old self. Terapagos itself isn't that interesting though. Somehow Briar didn't end up being evil, same goes for Geeta. Saw Geeta show up to discuss the Area Zero trip and expected her and Briar to have some sort of evil plan together but it didn't happen, both of them are CLEARLY hiding stuff from us though.

After completing the story, you can talk to Briar and she'll give you a book she wrote about your trip to Area Zero. If you go to the Crystal Pool in Kitakami with that book, you trigger an event where you meet Sada/Turo. Not the AI, it's the original professor themselves. There's some time travel shenanigans going on, this version of the professor hasn't made the time machine or their AI copy yet. They do mention Arven though. You give them Briar's book and they give you their copy of the Scarlet/Violet book and the event ends. Paradox just happened, also if you talk to Arven with this book he just assumes you have the library's copy.

Anyway uh Kieran is the best Pokemon rival no contest.