a great many friends

Pitri: in this season, I really like the caves at Isle Aphun! they’re all decorated for halloween right now, and there are all sorts of activities, and i go visit Remy and explore! Here’s a picture of us in the photobooth this year - all dressed up! ^-^

[image description: Melli the Ribombee says, “gosh! you’re quite pretty yourself! I love your colours - they’re so soft and lovely!” to Cherry the Kirlia.]

Melli continues, “As to the pollen puff: the fluff all over my body gathers pollen when I visit flowers! Pollen is sticky, and balled together as I move around! When I want to use a pollen puff, I bounce back and forth like this, from side to side, to shake one of the puffs off of me!”

“And then usually, I catch it in my back legs like so, and throw it! my teammates have learned how to catch it in their mouth when I throw it, and eating it gives them energy to heal - but if I throw it at an opponent, that energy can be used to hurt them. I prefer using them to heal, though - it feels like a better use of that energy, for me!”

[image description: Melli passes Cherry a Pollen Puff wrapped in a leaf with faer feet, saying, “here - you can try one next time you need some healing!”]

pew, pew, pew! pew, pew! pew pew, pew, pew pew. pew!

[image description: a two panel comic, arranged vertically. Both feature Lemon Drop the Pikachu and Mimi the Mimikyu, who are wearing matching necklaces with black cords and pink heart pendants.

In the first panel, both Lemon Drop and Mimi look a little sad/worried with furrowed brows. Lemon Drop says, “pride month is... complicated for us. we’re like a very big polyam family; there’s many many different kinds of important connections between many of us, and we’re certainly all queer in a variety of ways.

“But it can be hard for us to get our spirits into celebrating pride month, because many of us have been excluded and made unsafe in communities that we should be able to be a part of.”

In the second panel, Lemon Drop and Mimi have moved closer together, and are holding paws. Both of them look happier, and are blushing. Lemon Drop says, “That said, we Flowland Pokemon are all very proud to be queer in the many ways we are! We all do our best to live every day with as much love as possible, and we take Pride Month as a reminder to dedicate ourselves to that love!” Ey then adds, “(also - Mimi and me are girlfriends! if you couldn’t tell.)”]

Terra: Thank you so much for this ask! If you or anyone else is wondering if there's anyone in Flowland Pokemon that shares an identity/experience with you, feel free to send those questions in! There's a lot of friends, with a lot of identities/experiences!

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bonus transparent art of Lemon Drop and Mimi holding paws:

[image description: Remy the Sableeye is crouched over in a small nook in a cave wall, next to a pile of evolutionary stones, saying, “fave gems? likes lots gems- likes all the crunchy crystals- but this, this stack of special very-good extra-yes gems- these nyoom nyoom glow glow stones super yes good, shiny shiny glow glow with energy!” There is neon green, heavy bass music playing from somewhere off camera.]

Terra: We find too many evolution stones to use on Isle Aphun to be using them just to evolve, even though we give them away to friends whenever they need, and Remy said xe wanted any extras! I initially wasn't sure about Remy eating the evolution stones, but, I checked with Nurse Joy at a visit into the Poke Centre, and she said it was probably fine since xe’d been eating them since before xe joined our family! 

Nurse Joy said that different Sableye have different cravings, and that they can survive off of basically any crystalline structure. She also said that Remy's oil slick look might get more intense, the more of xyr diet is composed of evolution stones - apparently it’s the energy from the stones that usually goes in to evolution becoming part of xyr form! The oil slick look could be a problem if Remy was out and about in caves with pokemon xe didn't know or trust, but xyr is safe on the Flowland Poke Pelago - so xe eats these stones whenever possible!

That pile of favorites seems to be mostly composed of Thunder stones, Ice stones, Shiny stones, Dusk stones, and a couple of Dawn Stones - those last ones tend to go quick, because we don't find as many, but Remy likes having the "star eye", as xe calls it, and it takes a certain amount of them to maintain that crystalline structure in xyr body!

I’m not sure where that music is coming from... I think Remy uses some of xyr ghost powers to keep it going. In any case, that’s one of Remy’s favorite musical groups - I hear them playing from xyr part of the caves all the time!

[want to know more about the flowland pokemon family?]

[any questions? comments? requests?]

bonus transparent Remy:

[image description: Aerie the Minior, Jewel the Carbink, Noodle and Wiggles the Barboaches, Ze and Ahni the Dittos, and Silica the Sandygast pose in the inner clearing of Isle Aplenny, with a mailbox located next to the well and many full grown trees all around.]

Terra: it took a little while to get them all to be still enough for this picture - they were having such a good time at Ahni’s impromptu mailbox dance party! It came out so nice, I just had to frame it :]

[gif description: Ahni the Ditto is listening to music on Isle Aplenny, where the Flowland pokemon mailbox is. One by one, six other pokemon - Aerie the Minior, Ze the Ditto, Noodle the Barboach, Jewel the Carbink, Wiggles the Barboach, and Silica the Sandygast - join faer, and they all dance around!]

Terra: Ahni likes to start impromptu dance parties at the mailbox. :]

Mostly this is achieved through the Steven Universe soundtrack and other such fun, energetic music - there’s pretty much always at least a couple friends around to join in! 

All these friends and more would be thrilled to get mail - stuff like questions and requests! You can send in any you think of by means of this finely crafted link, and reblogging/sharing this post to signal boost would also be deeply appreciated! :] 

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bonus:

[image description: a four panel comic, with three small horizontal panels and one large one underneath them. All feature Mimi the Mimikyu.

In the first panel, there are three exclamation marks near her, indicating her excitement at being asked this question.

In the second panel, she speeds off, exiting the panel to the right.

In the third panel, she saunters back in from the right, a bit of pink now visible near her ear.

In the fourth panel, she poses proudly with a pink cloth flower on her right outfit ear, and effuses stars and rainbows.]

Terra: Mimi is still pretty new to the idea that she can look unique and still be lovable - the cloth flower she just got to show you was a gift from her girlfriend, Lemon Drop, and it’s her favorite exploration into accessorizing that she’s had thus far!

She doesn’t always wear it, because it’s very very special to her, and she doesn’t want to lose it or anything like that! She was really happy to get this chance to show it off, thanks for asking her this!

We’re hoping to find more accessories that Mimi likes, so she has more choice for self expression, and some for casual wear and whatnot - she’s very sweet and deserves to feel unique and lovable as herself!

And, you know, now that I look again, I see she’s done some work on her outfit, and she isn’t carrying around that heavy wooden tail! Lemon Drop told me a while ago that Mimi had expressed that was a part of why she was so tired all the time, and that ey had in turn let her know that she didn’t need a tail to be loved here, or that we could find out a way to make a lighter one if the tail was a matter of her self comfort.

It’s nice to see her comfortable enough to do stuff like this. And it looks like dropping the tail has been good for her - she’s moving quite quick at times, and looking more perky than I’ve seen in a while!

[image description: a two panel comic, arranged vertically. 

In panel one, Ze and Ahni, both Dittos, are side by side on a grassy poke pelago island. Ze says, “our fave forms are... ourselves!!!”, and Ahni replies, “I mean. look at us. we’re great.” Ze continues, “but sometimes...”

In panel two, Ze says, “I like a form more suited to exploring underwater!” and Ahni continues, “and flying can be fun!” Ze has transformed into a Luvdisc, and Ahni into a Cutiefly.]