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"How can I make Arceus with all of his types and be biblically-accurate/Lovecraftian/uncanny?"
I'm not even joking, this was my line of thought
Can’t wait to get my hands on BDSP to see if the remake has the murky and sinister drinks
Reblog if you want to drink the murky and sinister drinks in Team Galactic’s Fridge
I saw the concept art for BDSP and im legitmately so sad that we didnt get this
like?? these are so beautiful??? and they look so open, so expansive, so much to see and explore! and the CITIES
IM LITERALLY CRYING LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL VEILSTONE IS
TBH, Those Diamond and Pearl "remakes" look kinda...uninteresting. Alright 2007 DS cartridge, you may live.
DxP REWRITE - Master Post
“Diamond x Pearl REWRITE” is both a “rewrite” of BDSP & a second story in the Hisui region of old involving my & my husband’s trainers, Ansy & Ikrit, along with their ancestors Mizumi & Sasmu, as they travel along with a pair of familiar monochromatic train twins.
The title “REWRITE” also refers to how in both Diamond & Pearl as well as Legends Arceus someone wanted to “rewrite” the world, & how this story reimagines modern Sinnoh if it included more from Legends Arceus (among other things~).
Updates every Sun &/or Wed (depending on life stuff). If you’d like to help support my work, visit my Kofi! ☕️
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Main Cast: Ansy / Ikrit / Emmet / Ingo / Mizumi / Sasmu
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Scarlet x Violet Epilogue: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / DONE
Prologue: 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / DONE
Chapter 1: 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13/ 14 / 15 / 16/ 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / DONE
Chapter 2: 0 / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 4.5 / 5 / 6 / 7 /
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DxP Asks: Mizumi & Time Travel / Professor Laventon’s married? / Ingo’s Journal / Childhood Friend Rayquaza / FANART?? / Emmet > Barry /
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Other stories: PKMN Black / Sword x Shield / Scarlet x Violet
DxP REWRITE - Ansy
Meet Ansy! She’d been traveling around the various regions of the Pokémon world since she was 15. Originally from Cerulean City in Kanto, she spent most of her life in Unova’s coastal towns when she’s not off in another region (see her full timeline here!). Now that she’s married, she’s been traveling with her husband, Ikrit.
While she reached Champion rank in a few regions now, she’s not the strongest battler (often just barely wins lol) & is a bit of a klutz, but cares a lot about her Pokemon. As she got older, her maternal instincts have gotten stronger, as she discovered in her most recent journey through Paldea lol.
Her great-great-grandmother, Mizumi recently gave her the storied Azure Flute & her Froslass, Yukina (as seen in the Scarlet x Violet Epilogue). This comes from the very neat fact that if you have a completed save of Legends Arceus (aka have befriended Arceus), & then make a save in BDSP, you will have the Azure Flute in your room, implying that it’s a family heirloom that has made its way down to you:
Also yes, in-game Ansy got to actually travel with Mizumi’s Froslass via Pokémon Home because I love immersive gameplay (seeing as I literally make these comics / drawings about my experience playing these games lol).
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UPDATE: As you can see, I decided to update these character profiles with new art, & a cleaner design that allows for more info! If you want to compare / contrast, here’s the older version:
DxP REWRITE - Ikrit
Meet Ikrit (aka the mister’s trainersona)! Like Ansy, he’s been traveling around the Pokémon world since he was a child, though he’s easily the stronger battler of the two, having completed multiple Pokédexes & reached Champion rank in every known region except Alola (see his whole timeline here!).
Originally from Hoenn’s Fallarbor Town, he met & married Ansy following their first journey together through Galar, having gone there on another field study for Professor Cozmo over the Wishing Stars. His coming to Sinnoh, however, is much less about his work than it is help find a missing friend.
(In case you were wondering, yes he named most of his Pokemon after Fire Emblem characters lol - we had lots of fun with that 😄)
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UPDATE: As you can see, I decided to update these character profiles with new art, & a cleaner design that allows for more info! If you want to compare / contrast, here’s the older version:
DxP REWRITE - Ingo
The main reason for this comic himself lol. In the past 2 years, Ingo has had bits of his old personality come back as his subconscious makes more sense of what little of his memories he had left, particularly his volume & posture.
Like Emmet, I could’ve just gave him his in-game Hisuian team, & it is almost one-for-one, except for the free Shiny Ponyta you get near the beginning of the game - I had the thought that he was “lured” to its purple flames as a Rapidash for some reason…so Mizumi gave it to him between the end of PLA & the start of DxP REWRITE.
🔼 After some thinking (mostly thanks to this Sword / Shield Submas run I’m playing), I decided Emmet & Ingo do nickname their Pokémon after rail terms after all lol. Apart from the more obvious names, Olton is for the 5972 Olton Hall, the train they used for the Hogwarts Express, & Victoria, named for a type of horse-drawn carriage that refers to the time before the “iron-horse” ran the rails.
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UPDATE: As you can see, I decided to update these character profiles with new art, & a cleaner design that allows for more info! If you want to compare / contrast, here’s the older version:
DxP REWRITE - Mizumi
Meet Mizumi! She shares a lot of traits with her descendant, though is maybe even more optimistic & reckless lol. As this is set 2 years after Legends Arceus, she is indeed a girl from the modern era who saved the Hisui region together with the Creation Trio & Arceus as part of the Survey Corps. She is also the youngest & the smallest of the cast, standing at 4’8”.
She’s inspired by my IRL great-grandmother Hiyoko (who married my 6 foot something great-grandfather lol). Like me, Ansy only heard good things about her from older family members, though have never met her herself (except at the Crystal Pool).
PS: have a very uncle-niece photo of her with Ingo 😊
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UPDATE: As you can see, I decided to update these character profiles with new art, & a cleaner design that allows for more info! If you want to compare / contrast, here’s the older version:
DxP REWRITE - Prologue
Best place to start is the beginning…
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DxP REWRITE - Chapter 1
There’s gonna be like 5 chapters, then the epilogue. Chapters 1-4 will mostly be a retelling of the main plot of BDSP, trading off between the present & past parties.
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DxP REWRITE - Verrry Stubborn
A very dear thank you again to @nartothelar for letting me include their adorable version of Depot Agent Josh! Love that dude so much.
I didn’t realize this when I first gave Emmet the green Barry scarf, but it turns out to be about the same green as the Depot Agents’ uniforms are - feels like he gets to bring a bit of Gear Station with him on this journey.
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DxP Rewrite - Little Brothers
Enter Ikrit, & the first thing he does is prank Ansy with Emmet. Figures. :T
I like to think that this whole time Ingo’s been missing, Emmet’s been taking pictures of things he found funny, amazing, or noteworthy in the hopes of showing Ingo everything he’s missed. Ansy’s Purrloin moments are one of those things.
I had a couple ideas for what kind of Rotom phone case Emmet had, but for some reason the plain white one just felt best. Ingo, of course, had the black one.
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DxP REWRITE - Splash Plate
Ramanas Park (once known as Ramanas Island) is off the coast of Sandgem Town (once the Sandgem Flats). That’s where the Splash Plate ended up 150 years after Legends Arceus. In game, it’s locked behind Surf, but since they’re here, why not?💧
⭐️ BONUS:
PS: so it’s apparently Tynamo Community Day?? I DIDN’T KNOW??? 😂
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DxP REWRITE - Jubilife
Just putting it out there now - I’ll be lifting shots from the amazing BDSP artbook to show off 1) how awesome the concept art was, & 2) what we almost got in-game, something more like Sword / Shield (DANGIT 🥲).
I also used screenshots I took to help draw out backgrounds, which was very useful as we go back to that time period to see what Mizumi’s up to.
The benefit of being someone who played Legends Arceus before BDSP is that I can look at buildings & landmarks with fresh eyes. The first moment I saw the Trainer’s School, I thought of a repainted Galaxy HQ with all the rooms & offices being converted into classrooms.
Speaking of schools, in case you missed Scarlet x Violet, Uva & Naranja Academies became one school with 2 wings (Uva & Naranja) after the separate timelines Ansy & Ikrit were on converged
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PS: a couple screenshots to help illustrate my HC - obviously they developed the design in Legends Arceus, but the elements are there. I can easily see Kamado’s office being the principal’s office, Cyllene’s office being adminstrations, flanked by the science lab (Professor Laventon’s study) & nurses’ office (infirmary), etc. 🏫
Also, with this theory, the Pokémon center is in the same spot as where you also go to rest up your team: your quarters in PLA!
Figured out how to add pictures & screenshots to post descriptions, so I made some updates to some of the character profiles for Diamond x Pearl REWRITE as well as the most recent update to the comic 🏞️✨ Be sure to check it out to see more about how I connected my playthroughs of Legends Arceus & BDSP to DxP REWRITE 🩵
PS: deleted my reblog since I didn’t see a need for it now that I figured this out lol 😅
DxP cast final draft (lol)
Sort of another “pardon our dust” post - I was gonna wait until Chapter 2 to share this, but I figured “why not” & updated the character profiles of the main cast of DxP REWRITE one more time.
Each of them got new artwork (I’d gotten so much practice drawing them in the comic that I felt I could do better than the first drafts) as well as a cleaner design with a little more info. Also, there’s been a little rearranging on teams:
For Ansy, she has her Castform Sora since I just learned you can indeed have Castform in Sinnoh! For Emmet & Ingo, thanks to this very fun Sword / Shield Submas run I’m playing where I nicknamed all their Pokémon after rail terms, I decided to nickname their DxP teams, too! I did look up most these terms online, so my apologies to rail fans if I didn’t do as well as I could’ve lol. 😅
Okay, that’s it lol. See you Wednesday for the next update! ^o^
DxP Ask - Mizumi & Time Travel
NOTE: this has minor spoilers about one of the main characters of DxP REWRITE if you haven’t read up to the most recent comic - if you’re caught up (or don’t care lol), go on ahead!
bca_private from Instagram asked:
Something I’ve been wondering about Mizumi: I understand that she’s Ansy’s ancestor, but she was also from the future and brought to Hisui by Arceus, right? From when is she? Was she born in the same era as Ansy (making it a paradox), or was she from an earlier time regardless?
Mizumi was a modern girl from Sinnoh - just a normal 15-year-old girl who went to a certain school in Jubilife City until a fateful trip up Mt. Coronet, where she got isekai’ed to Hisui about 150 years in the past. Legends Arceus happens, & eventually she restarts her family line to become Ansy’s great-great-grandmother.
She was born when Ansy was about 19 & living in Unova (while the rest of her family lived either in Kanto, Unova, & Alola). Meanwhile, Ansy’s paternal side of the family is living in Kalos around the time of Legends Arceus (already planning for Legends ZA lol) before they immigrated to Unova. All to say that no one in Ansy’s family apart from Mizumi & her family live/lived in Sinnoh.
So yeah - not a grandfather paradox (none of that), but still paradoxical as Ansy was technically born before her ancestor was.
However, two rules of time travel that exist in at least Ansy’s tiny corner of the Pokéverse are this: self-repairing timeline & multiverse theory. I imagine one of Dialga’s roles as the deity of time is sorting through time paradoxes: seeing which ones are “canon” with Arceus, correcting the flow of time to accommodate it, & for the ones that aren’t, create another spacetime together with Palkia for it (like we saw in Scarlet x Violet, & a few of the games themselves)
As I’d recently added to Ansy’s profile page, apart from me just wanting to play as Ansy’s maternal ancestor, it actually does seem to be the canon that isekai’ed Rei / Akari IS Lucas / Dawn’s ancestor. My biggest evidence for this is if you have a completed save in Legends Arceus (aka you befriended Arceus), & then start a save in BDSP, you’ll find the Azure Flute in your room at the very beginning of the game, like it’s a family heirloom that’s made it’s way down to you.
In the SxV Epilogue leading into DxP REWRITE, Mizumi passed the Azure Flute down to Ansy in a slightly different way lol, but same principle.
One last little note to wrap this all up: as of the events of Paldea (the first time either of them really encountered space-time travel), Ansy & Ikrit have shared notes about the rules that exist for them. Ikrit, being a student of Professor Cozmo & astrophysics, goes more in depth while Ansy can follow well enough when numbers aren’t involved lol.
So far their notes include: AU’s (multiverse theory), self-repairing timelines, converging timelines (& memory correction), & what I’m just gonna call “uninterrupted time” because I can’t find an official name of this theory / principle anywhere lol (time moves in either points of the timeline at the same pace since the time traveler left the present - Mizumi spent 2 years in Hisui, 2 years have gone by in the present, same for Ingo’s 7 years).
That’s it for me geeking out about time travel for now. Later! 🌧️
DxP REWRITE - Destination
The Applin often doesn’t fall far from the tree in the Pokémon world - in Ansy’s case, it just kinda tumbled onto the roots lol.
Meanwhile, Emmet doesn’t look terribly impressed with Ansy’s logic.
PS: in this corner of the Pokéverse, the Champion title is like it is in Paldea in most other regions that there’re more than one Champion, the reigning Champion being like Geeta, the final test. But I guess it could be the canon - we’ve heard of people who make it to the top, but refuse the title.
Anyways, TLDR: there’s more than one champion in most regions lol
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