Because a new one was long overdue and I don't want anything relating to that oc showdown blog as my pinned anymore
And I figured it'd be fun if I answered some questions still because I'm sure plenty of people by now have gone;
"Sege I thought this was the Sonic brainrot always blog, what the hell is all this Pokemon Gurren Lagann stuff going on?!?"
At the end of summer 2024 I rewatched Gurren Lagann for the first time since 2011. And then the brainrot took hold. The difference between me in 2011 and me in 2024 is that I can draw humans and anime men now. Which means I can just keep making my own stuff for this anime that's been over for almost two decades--
At the same time my dormant Pokemon obsession finally became active again for the first time in like 2 years. And it became VERY active. So Gurren Lagann did what it does best and combined with the reignited Pokemon hyperfixation rather than being pushed out by it.
It didn't help that I was being enabled via my friend @/riftclaw who's had a long time Pokemon au xe is now writing and went "Kamina and Simon can be canon to my au" (I originally intended for it to be an au of an au)
You should go read the stuff xe has out for the au so far btw I love it and it's part of what threw me face first back into pokemon GO READ IT
Anyway obv these are not my OCs so it's not like I have written out lore here or have OC memes to reblog and answer questions for. So I'm gonna answer some questions under the cut as a sort of FAQ as to what's wrong with me lately and what's going on with these au versions bc I think they'd be fun to answer.
AU FAQ under readmore
What are Simon and Kamina doing in your friend's Pokemon au??
Chilling-- shdHSGDHS. Ok in-univers they're just regular(ish) dudes that were born in that world. The irl reason? My sudden Gurren Lagann hyperfixation happened simultaneously as my Pokemon one. And I'd spent like all year reading snippets of the fic Blake was working on, along with worldbuilding for it.
In that au's lore, a lot of the people in Blackthorn are dragon hybrids. This results in them having naturally occurring bright red hair, or blue hair. They also have some dragon-esque traits like fangs or sharp teeth. The Tatsumi family (Lance's and Clair's family) have red eyes.
The red eyes given are EXACTLY like the ones Kamina has in canon. So while juggling these two hyperfixations I was like "Haha hey Blake you know how Kamina gets drawn with fangs in canon super often, has red eyes, blue hair, and an affinity for capes? What if I made an au of your au where he's Lance's and Clair's brother" and then Blake was like "He's canon TO the au now" and the ball kinda got rolling from there (Thank u Blake)
Simon is also a hybrid tho not a dragon one. There's a town in the au that gets literally wiped off the map because of an earthquake/massive sinkhole. So I plopped Simon in there to keep his earthquake trauma. Even tho they're not from the same town, Kamina and Simon still find each other and Kamina takes him in to Blackthorn after the town's disaster happens and Simon loses his parents in it.
Extra bit of info: Kamina's full name in this au is Kamina Tatsumi, and Simon's is Simon Takashi. I know it's popular fanon to give them the last names of Jiha/Giha since other characters in canon have their last names be the villages they came from. But I don't subscribe to this since they tried so hard to get AWAY from their village I don't think they'd adopt it into their names, so I got Simon a whole new last name even tho this is an au.
Are other Gurren Lagann characters in this AU?
PROBABLY although they would be background/side characters since Kamina and Simon are what I focus on here. They have a whole wide world to exist in so they could be out and about. Like I can't imagine Simon NOT meeting up with and eventually dating Nia. If Kamina gets to live then she should get to live too. She'd probably be a fairy hybrid of some sort because I mean. Look at her.
Kittan might be somewhere out there too as a friend Kamina occasionally meets up with and bickers with, kind of like a rival. I don't think he'd be a hybrid because I think it's funny how in episode 4 when Kamina met him he was like 'SHOW ME YOUR TEETH SO I CAN SEE THAT THEY'RE FLAT AS PROOF YOU'RE NOT A BEASTMAN' like he doesn't frequently get drawn with fangs.
Tl;dr: Yes the other GL characters could potentially be out there even if my focus isn't on them. It's a big world out there and Kamina and Simon are traveling it, so they're meeting all sorts of people all the time.
Ok but Sege you appear to have gone insane over Adaman/Kamina? How did this happen? Is it a crackship?
This is not a crackship-- at least not by the og definition. Nowadays it seems to get used as a term for 'a ship that isn't canon' but the og definition meant 'silly unserious joke ship'.
Adaman/Kamina is canon to the au and is treated completely seriously.
Did I mean for it to happen? Nope! It was another case of 'author does the writing and then the character end up doing whatever they want instead of anything that was planned for'
In this au Kamina is the one that ends up living through the events of Legends Arceus-- except unlike in the game he gets to bring himself and Ingo home after fighting Arceus.
To me Adaman is bisexual af, and I figured he'd have a crush on Kamina. It was meant to be silly-- Kamina is an acearo that hasn't found the words for it because he's just not focused on that. He's focused on Pokemon and battling and traveling the world. He's oblivious to a lot of advances. So Adaman runs into a lot of situations where Kamina's absolutely dense about how he feels.
But then I was like 'well. Adaman is impatient, and he's got no lack of confidence. I don't think he'd keep these feelings to himself for the entirety of Kamina's stay in Hisui'
And things kinda spiraled from there because then we have Kamina, who's been stuck in Hisui for a couple months or so at that point. The Pokemon team he's familiar with-- some of which he's grown up with, isn't there. There aren't even that many dragon types in Hisui for him to speak to and be himself around (he's hiding the whole dragon thing given how the people of Jubilife are around Pokemon alone)
He's been separated from his family and friends. Ingo and Adaman are the people he hangs around the most, and some of the only people that know (save for a few other Diamond clan members that were there when Adaman himself found out)
He's got no people to be around most the time, no one to really let in his personal space. And as someone that's grown up with a bunch of siblings and then gone on to make a bunch of friends, that's a big thing for him.
He's lonely af, so when Adaman confesses by kissing him, he gives in to that. They end up with a sort of arrangement where they both get affection for different reasons. And then it starts deepening beyond that. It's queerplatonic rather than a strict romance, so what that means to them fluctuates through the story. All the while they're keeping it a secret just so it doesn't seem like the guy who fell from the sky is playing favorites with one of the clans over the others.
But by the nature of how Legends Arceus would end if there was an option for the player to go back from wherever Arceus plucked them from, it does mean that they get separated in the end. They know this will happen but they stay with each other until the end anyway.
They move on with their lives, but they do end up reunited even though it's years down the line
Anyway that's why I've been insane lately SHDGSHDHHSD. Will add more stuff if I think of any or get asked
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Geoverse Radio Tower incident if it was game accurate to how Silver blows everyones cover-- SHGDHSDH
I did this over like a year ago and never uploaded it to tumblr?? Fixed that now
Gold belongs to @riftclaw
I'm avoiding the dialogue tags on Yoko's outburst shhh, don't tell anyone!
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“Has morale really been that bad?”
She seems taken aback by the question. Kamina's not sure why, it’s a reasonable thing to ask. “Kamina, we thought you were gonna die. A lot of people were acting like you were already dead. Of course we’ve all been miserable! You're the reason we're all here, the one we all look up to. None of us could bear the thought of losing you for good.”
That doesn't seem right. How long had she said he’d been asleep? And in all that time, the team still hasn't recovered? Maybe his still being alive made things worse, made it harder to move on.
Maybe he should have died that day after all, for the good of the team.
No, no, he can't think like that. Simon would be utterly devastated, and though Kamina's sure he’d pick himself up and keep moving eventually, it's still more pain than Kamina ever wants to cause his little bro. Even if Kamina's creeping fears are true and Simon has already grown past his need for his big bro, he still thinks he needs Kamina. A careful weaning off will be kinder and less traumatic. Something he can only manage if he’s still alive. The rest of the team. . . they're adults, they can handle their own grieving and it's not Kamina's fault if they can't.
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Not totally sure on that last line. I think it'd be really interesting to explore, and add some interpersonal tension to a story that's mostly man vs his own body if Kamina's favoritism of Simon (and the other kids to an extent) is more than just hyping up Simon but goes as far as dismissing the problems of the adults around him. Not a single adult in Jiha ever did a thing to help Kamina, his whole life he's been on his own, why should he concern himself with adults now?
but idk maybe it comes across too callous? What do yall think?
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"Belching fire and setting the earth ablaze, I don't think I could have asked for a more perfect setting for a once in a lifetime battle! Now I'm really psyched!"
okay so. in the episode i just watched rossiu brings up kamina’s “sacrifice” and. it got me thinking. this isn’t the first time a characters called what happened a sacrifice but like. was it a sacrifice?
no one was expecting kamina to die. sure SOMEONE would almost definitely die, but never kamina, surely. kamina himself wasn’t expecting to be attacked like that, he had wanted to live and see the future – he just realized that his wound was fatal and accepted it, and did what he could with the last of his strength
which is a different type of sacrifice, sure. but not the kind rossiu seemed to be talking about, saying that in some ways, maybe kamina’s death was a “good” thing. by the laws of the universe (/writing) he needed to be the one to die for being simon’s anchor, but his death isn’t what won them the battle. they won because he got back up again, even while on death’s door
wouldn’t it be fun if simon had some grief stricken emotions about everyone calling kaminas death a sacrifice (:
GODDDD i wonder if the people that call it that are saying it because some part of them thought thered be Hope
That if Kamina Hadnt used the last of his strength to push through to ensure victory, that maybe he couldve been saved, maybe there couldve been something, Anything to be done. And that in that way by choosing to push through, he chose to sacrifice himself.
Its probably easier to think about it that way for some. To think that his death was necessary. That it wasnt the sensless death of a young man leading a charge even though he shouldve had his whole life ahead of him. But a sacrifice towards the goal of victory and freedom.
I think for Rossiu it also shows his attempts to be a governmental figure, and his slide towards being unintentionally more like Magin. The lives taken during the war were Sacrifices, there to pave their way towards a better life like what they have now
But then theres Simon. Where no matter whos calling Kaminas death a sacrifice and for what reason, thats still his bro. And everyone is basically saying Kamina was a sacrifice for his sake, when he never asked for it. A sacrifice to make him grit his teeth. A sacrifice to shape him into who he is.
So. Our cinema has been doing an open air cinema every summer for 3 summers now. They dont show just current movies that are on the regular roster, but movies from before this cinema even opened, from the early 2000s and beyond (like one of the movies theyre showing this year is Troy, presumably to coincide with the Odyssey movie coming out)
I have never went because none of the movies theyve shown interested me. I think there was one last year but it was while i was on vacation so i couldnt go anyway.
Ive Wanted to go but i also wanna be interested in what im watching instead of just going for the sake of it, yknow? So ive been Waiting
She found out about where his mindset is at, and that he thinks he should stay away from Blackthorn because his family Must hate the sight of him, its His Fault Lance was taken, and once he has fixed his wrongs by getting Lance back they wont need him anymore
So she was spurred on to have her own LETS SEE YOU GRIT THOSE TEETH moment over it
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Assorted 'Dragon siblings Cain instincts' moments along with just childhood moments
The first one is based on this video, and the second one is based on that I think WWE clip where the guy goes in the hospital and hits someone with a metal toilet HSGDHSHDHSHD. Lance gets hospitalized enough times that Kamina would get pissed enough from worrying so much and just do this I think
The next two are based on a scene in @riftclaw's fic where Lance almost gets drowned by a Gyarados except in this doodle Kamina is there
Next one is because I saw art of a Mime Jr. with Kamina glasses
And the final one is Kamina being forced to go skating in the ice path with his little sister because you shouldn't let your siblings go off in a frozen cave alone HSHDHSHD
I went thru some fated shit at the bookstore today
I knew id go there after the tattooing sob yesterday out of curiosity i looked up what pokemon manga they have and if they got gen 1 (Plus i have some of the SwSh manga and wanna see more of my boy Piers so i wanted to see)
They didnt have gen 1 manga. Thats fine, i was just curious
So i go to the book store
And i went to look at their dungeon meshi manga volumes. And theres a book resting on them that i cant see, so i lean down
Pokemon. Where it has no business being. And the binding has caterpie on it. So im like, is this gen 1 or is caterpie here because its cute
So i pull it out to see and cuz i wanna return it to the pokemon shelf regardless, and its this
And i stare at it. And i open it to a random page to see if it has what i think it does
And this is the page i opened on
And im like its decided then. Mine now.
And then i proceeded to wait at the register for 5 minutes because they couldnt find this book in their registry. It Is theirs. The price sticker on it is there, and its from the book store. But by all accounts it just Doesnt exist in their stock, it hasnt gotten registered
So they billed me for a Different pokemon volume because theyre all the same price.
I guess pokespe Lance just has to cause problems
Ftr now that i had a reason i did look at the pokemon manga shelf and there were No other gen 1 era manga there. This was the only one
This is the biggest tattoo ive gotten and the most filled out one by proxy of the numbers and the shine on the ring
Those numbers Hurt and all i could think was holy fuck whats wrong with Kamina is he ok all his tattoos are filled out And theres no fucking tattoo pens in Jiha HE HAD TO GET THEM DONE THE TRADITIONAL WAY
Yeah he has tattooing technology on his side in Geoverse but i maintain is he ok and whats wrong with him--
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something about how kamina became the symbol of the humans’ rebellion and subsequently stopped being a person in the grief arc specifically. he’s the figurehead of team dai-gurren, and after he dies there’s no one to remind them that he’s just as flawed and human as the rest of them, because everyone idolized him even BEFORE he died. they loved him, cared for him, respected, and grieved for him – but suddenly everything is “this is how kamina would have done it. if only he was here, then everything would be okay. All our problems would be solved by now”. they’re remembering only the best about him and in turn forgetting him
“bro would never scream like that!” but he did
YEAH...
And Simon is the one that knew him Best. Even the parts Kamina tried to hide, Simon knew the other parts of him enough to have a good guesstimate on whats going thru his head
Hes pushing away the memory of that scream because its traumatizing and terrifying and horrible and Kamina had never screamed that way Before
And hes idolizing Kamina this way all for the sake of comparing and punishing himself
