Pokemon Pencil Sketch #21: Cyndaquil (08-01-2024)

(the image is bigger then i intended but meh)

design from my vanitas and ienzo friendship au where vanitas is turned into a flood after dying bbs, trapped in the basement of castle oblivion, and eventually gains the ability to transform into any unversed form

one common thing is the red marks along his chest being consistent in every form. this includes his human form, both on his skin and the dark suit, which has turned to similar colors to the remnant colors, just with the remaining red on his chest.

pokemon and daddy issues are synonymous it seems

chatting with friend about barry pokemon and trying to explain his fines, and I realized there's an interesting amount of daddy issues in pokemon

like, giovanni essentially abandons silver, then later on assumedly kills himself

of all the mainline protagonists only one has a known dad (i don't know about side games), and even then norman is distant and seems to rather be a gym leader than a father

palmer lives on an entirely different area of sinnoh, as well as also seeming emotionally distant considering the reason for barry's fines (tbf i don't know a whole much about the battle zone)

and arven just has parent issues in general depending on the version you play

child zora and river minish :)

So in Majora's Mask, I read somewhere that the reason Link screams when putting on masks is because he's experiencing the pain the character went through before their death, so I thought it would be interesting if he saw some of the things the Fierce Deity did when putting on the mask. But because in my au Oni isn't dead, just sealed away, they're able to talk in Link's head except the connection goes both way so Oni also saw some of the shit Link went through. Unfortunately the visions only show the bad things(neither know this) so Link only saw the horrible crimes and Oni only saw the bullying Link went through and figured they were the same, having also gone through bullying for being different than the others around him.

Realize at this point in his life, Oni has been sealed away for who knows how long with only his thoughts, so he is very much not a stable person, and is making Link very uncomfortable despite trying to relate to him by making himself look like his child self(they're in Link's head and he's a powerful demon, who's to say he can't shapeshift?).

Also Majora's Wrath is the one that slashed Link's eye with one of its whips, and in a panic he used the Fierce Deity mask, inadvertently letting Oni take control of his body.

he's a dick but he's right

a pet nasaur playing with its owner

based on this

one of my favorite images

Is That The Fucking Biolizard?!?!

they're girlfriends, your honor

please please please let this be the dynamic it would be so funny