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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"Listen up! Alright you bozos, I'm glad you all could make it here today! About that huge ganman from this afternoon, you can be sure that it'll come back tomorrow! And when it shows it's ugly face again, I say we steal that big ass ganman from them! We're just gonna help ourselves to it. After tomorrow that big hunk of junk's gonna be our headquarters! Pretty sweet, right? We've come this far from stealing ganmen from the beastmen, there's nothing to be afraid of!"
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trying to figure out how to break it down without giving you a couple thousand words lmao
as a kid he was very isolated from everything, his only friend was an abra he stole from a game corner shipment. when rocket collapsed and giovanni left, he tried to survive on the streets of viridian, did ok at it, but things got bad and eventually, he left too and walked the gauntlet from route 22 to new bark town with nothing but abra and a backpack the nurse at viridian pokemon centre totally didn't give him.
he gets to new bark town, steals a totodile, runs into my oc gold* and they get into a fistfight. gold chases him all the way up sprout tower and silver gets away by jumping out the window. very loony toons.
*you have no idea how impossible it's been to shift to calling him cain instead ("gold" was only meant to be a placeholder) partly bc it's been like 20 years and partly bc he IS the kinda guy that would have a dorky nickname like that. you asked about silver and not gold so i won't get further into it than that lmao but if you want info lmk
they run into each other here and there for a bit after that, and eventually gold finds out silver is like. sleeping under a tarp in the forest every night so he bullies silver into letting him buy him a tent. and supplies. and gives him money. and silver begrdugingly accepts this and somehow they are friends now.
and then the next big major deviation is that the lake of rage situation happens, and silver is there fucking with the rockets bc he's kinda blaming team rocket for the whole my father sucks and left me behind thing, he runs into lance and drago and drago takes out half his pokemon team without even being told what to do. and the worst part is that lance shows mercy and tells drago to stand down. how fucking dare he.
so silver takes off into the woods north of the lake of rage, crosses the fence, and heads into one of the abandoned cities up there to train solo for a year. this period ends when he gets bit by an absol carrying active-phase pokerus and gold and lance (who have been having an entire romance arc in the background) have to come and airlift him to goldenrod for treatment.
modern treatments for dxz-ap infection are MUCH better than they were even during the third plague, so they put him under, hit him with antivirals, a bunch of human preservation strain "vaccine" to try and fix the human traits, and hybrid blood to try and neutralise the viral particles. he came out of it minimally mutated (mostly minor stuff like some changes to eye colour, hair texture, some rougher skin patches here and there), and while gold offered to pay for him to get dental work he decided to keep the fangs.
and he kinda hung around in goldenrod not knowing what to do for a few months until the radio tower incidents happened, got bullied into helping gold w that, and after the event they took him to blackthorn and put him in the (usuable) spare room in lance's house.
once the rest of the pack found out silver needed a cover story so his past links to rocket would be easier to hide they pretty much unanimously decide to adopt him. yeah what are you talking about silver nagoshi has always been one of us he just got fostered elsewhere bc his parents died in the third plague. it's so nice he's come back and decided to learn dragon taming with clair.
so in the post-radio tower days he's learning the blackthorn style of judo and working towards earning a dratini egg from pike (clair and lance's grandfather, who is nicer than he is in the games). lance is trying really hard to make friends, bc silver is gold's best friend and lance is determined not to be the reason that friendship breaks down, and that's weird bc lance is not good at it and silver still resents him a bit.
silver's also adapting to the fact that the hybrid children of blackthorn (including kamina) are in fact incredibly committed to the bit and now he's just literally another of the siblings. he grew up an only child. help him.
Wanted to do a lil master post of Kamina's Pokemon team as it is now
He has more than 6, but that's the case of anyone that's taken up Pokemon training/challenges seriously. The whole 'team of 6' thing isn't a 'you can only ever have 6' rule, it's just that you can bring no more than 6 in battles or gym/league challenges, else it'd be unfair.
Tiny:
As a kid from Blackthorn, Kamina's first Pokemon is a Dratini (now Dragonite, obv) he got as an egg when he was 12 (in the au, you can start your journey at 15, but kids in Blackthorn get to have their first Pokemon at 12, though they still gotta wait until theyre 15 if they wanna go for any gym challenges)
As such Tiny is Kamina's oldest Pokemon. And as with any of them, he sees them as his siblings. Tiny has gotten into trouble with Kamina almost as much as he's had to save his ass from it
Katsumi and Kougi:
Sometimes referred to as 'the twins' even though they might not even be actual twins. These two were unplanned narratively. But during my Kamina playthrough of HGSS, Blake and I decided that the NPCs being like 'hey stranger, have you ever heard of dragon trainers, you ever heard of Lance before???' at the player character, along with Clair making you go to the dragon's den for your badge at the player character was too funny when the context is that the player character is Kamina. So we made it into a whole thing where Kamina's whole family decides to prank him and act like he's any ol stranger walking into Blackthorn.
But then when I was actually playing the game and went to the dragon's den, i ran into two Dratini, one after the other, and i was floored when i looked up how low the chances for even ONE Dratini are. Blake joked that they aren't in in the joke and recognized Kamina and just swam up to him while he was pouting in the den being annoyed with his family. So it became a thing
Koji:
(That's him with Silver after the events of vs. Kyogre)
Though Koji was a BIT more planned than the twins, he is actually a third Dratini i ended up running into in the dragon's den in-game (I cannot stress that i was Not trying to get Dratini. I already got my Tiny for the game via the games corner, so I wasn't looking for one. I was literally just trying to get through the dragon's den while going from plot point to plot point bc of Clair. So. Kamina luck, i guess???)
But I did know I wanted Kamina to have at least one more Dragonite besides Tiny. I think that's inevitable, as a Blackthorn kid.
This third in-game Dratini was of a lonely nature, so the character started from there. After that one plot in Pokemon Masters that shows Paulo's backstory and how he couldn't save a Dratini from being captured by some asshole that just wanted to sell it's sheds, I decided that could be the kinda environment Koji came from too. A lonely dratini that hadn't come from the dragon's den, that Kamina stole away from his shitty trainer
Gurren:
We're getting into non-Dragonite territory now!
Gurren is Kamina's second main pokemon right beside Tiny! Kamina captured Gurren as a Bagon when traveling Hoenn and trying to emotionally recover after the Verdigris disaster (the event that killed Simon's parents, along with one of Kamina's friends. This friend was also Lance's best friend, so Kamina was also pretty aware that a part of his brother died that day too)
Kamina saw this literal And figurative headstrong lil thing that dreamed of flying one day, and was immediately endeared. He took him onto the team and named him Gurren as a promise that the Bagon would get his crimson wings one day.
(and now we get to the batch of lil guys i have no images or more extensive info on)
Neon:
Neon is Kamina's Noivern that he got while he was in Unova (he likes traveling there, Unova was the first place he got to see a BIG city in)
Big loud dragon? This guy is right up Kamina's alley
Kenta:
Rare pre-Hisui non-dragon on Kamina's team, this is his Krookodile. Like are you kidding me? This thing is red, and has his shades BUILT IN. He had to have one, and these are his thoughts exactly in-universe
Unnamed Talonflame:
Another one of the non-dragons, and one of the ones that's given me the most trouble as a character. It's hard to figure out, obviously, since i don't even have a name for them. But Talonflame seem right up Kamina's alley design-wise, and in-universe I know he'd want to seek out a fire type like that after dealing with Sinnoh's climate.
Kaito:
Kamina's Kyogre, which I left for last of the 'regular team' even tho he has more info on him, purely because Kamina doesn't really use him for regular battling, or battles overall unless he sees it as absolutely necessary.
Once Kaito is captured, it takes a bit for Kamina to come to terms with the fact that he now has a psychic link with something that can check in on what's going on in his brain anytime it wants. Kamina's always tried to keep some things to himself, and now the thing that almost killed him could know his deepest emotional thoughts and periods of self doubt at a moment's notice.
But he also slowly starts letting Kaito out, because he can't bring himself to just Not. He can't keep freedom from anyone. So eventually, whenever you'll find Kamina you'll also find Kaito in the nearest large body of water, relaxing while Kamina's off traveling around. Unless he senses trouble around and decides it's enough that he needs to go help. He kinda becomes like the quiet but protective uncle around Blackthorn.
Eventually he even learns to shift to a human-ish form. It's something legendaries in this setting can learn to do it they try. Kaito initially has no interest in learning this, but after Kamina disappears he realizes some things would be easier that way. Like for example people in towns would freak out a lot less if a random guy was coming through looking for someone, rather than a big whale flying over their town.
Lightning round, Pokemon Kamina got in Hisui:
Aki:
Kamina's starter Cyndaquil, now a Hisuian Typhlosion. Kamina feels like Aki is his tiny tether to home, even though he was always in Hisui. As someone that's uneasy around ghost types, Kamina thought Aki's evolution to a part ghost type form was more bullshit from Arceus and that it thought their bond would be damaged by this. It couldn't be further from the truth.
Lux:
An old Luxray Kamina caught to help him out in Hisui's wilderness. He has no qualms with helping Kamina get home, and more or less sees that as his retirement
Fang:
Kamina's Garchomp, caught as a Gabite. The first dragon Kamina ran into in Hisui outside of Volo's Gible. He was overjoyed to finally get to a dragon pokemon he could speak with
Sorairo:
An alpha Gyarados Kamina went after after he saw her flying over one of the lakes. This dragon boy is so lonely in Hisui without his family, and with Hisui only having three dragon lines, he's running off after any 'familiar face' he sees
Dewdrop:
Kamina's alpha Hisuian Goodra. Another case of Kamina seeing something he knows, and going after it. Especially as Lance has one of these. Helps that she gave him a good fight and helped him think about something other than the situation he's in for a bit.
Hisuian Zoroark:
No name yet, this Zoroark is one of the cave pokemon from the three lake trials. It's the only one of the three he caught, because unlike the other two, this one hates humans and would pose a danger to anyone nearby. He isn't sure what to do, since it's hard for him to even begin training it. The Zoroark ends up finding Kamina curious eventually. He knows Kamina isnt like other humans. He's closer to a pokemon than anyone there. AND the humans don't seem to want him, having banished him. And especially after seeing how Kamado acts towards him, Zoroark just can't wrap his head around why Kamina won't just leave the humans to whatever fate awaits them beyond the red skies
Bonus:
In the bad end au, Kamina has one Pokemon that he doesn't get in the main verse- Akaneiro, the red Gyarados from the Lake of Rage. She and Kamina are quick to bond after he calms and captures her. Team Rocket have messed up both their lives, and she's right by his side to help him in both his vengeful rampages towards them, and his search for Lance
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Hes got some recovery time ahead of him but he lives. And has to deal with now being psychically linked to a legendary killer whale
ALSO GOAL MET SHSHSHSJ i was reading the Otoko manga and he gives me Several heart attacks with his heroic tendencies n im like
Ok if i can do the same with my writing of the situations he gets into then ive done my job well
Also Gurren is a Salamence! Kamina has fallen in love with the species. Stubborn literally hardheaded lil guys that just wanna fly one day, and they Do. On his travels to Hoenn he caught a Bagon and named him Gurren as a promise that he'd get his crimson wings one day
okay im getting WAY too deep into lottie and battling youâve unlocked some serious brainrot from me đ, tell me about kaminaâs battle style?
UR WELCOME but also ough my weakness, battle scenarios đ Ive actually been avoiding writing them in my big fic bc im like 'WELL. WHAT YOU SEE IN LEGENDS ARCEUS IS WHAT YOU GET UH...'
His battle styles differ on if hes in an actual battle or a situation where he and his team could be in danger
With the latter he'll call out commands sure but he can also go kick whoever's ass himself and his team will still know what he wants of them because theyre so in sync
Regular battles he prefers to battle offensively unless he gets the sense that going on the defence can get them their victory. He's more strategic than he lets on (much like in canon). He also likes to throw curveballs at his opponent if he gets the sense that they think they can predict what he'll do next
I know thats not much of a description but this is my weakness đ
Designed parents for Kamina, even though they've passed away in the au too. The dad was designed based on what little we could see in the flashback scene in the show.
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@sege-h hehehe Iâve got so many headcanons about lucy and now you get to hear them too. since itâs relevant lol
this is the frame I was mentioning! the manga is pretty inconsistent with pokemon sizes, but Iâve been enraptured with her being Massive. if we were to go by the anime sizes, sheâd need to be two or three times the size of a regular dragonite in order to get away with the manga pose!
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because of her size and pokespe lanceâs ability to keep in contact with her over great distances, she spends a lot of time outside her pokeball so that she can still get all the exercise she needs. most of his team does, and he just switches whoâs back heâs taking a nap on when theyâre travelling
I like to think that pokemon evolution is impacted by the circumstances of their lives or even the evolution itself â a wild dragonite might grow abnormally large if put in a position of guarding the flock, and if given enough resources and space consistently enough that it would have no reason to fear evolving into a much larger size. dragonite that are raised/caught as dragonairs to be battlemons tend to evolve to smaller sizes to better fit in human establishments, since most of the fighting theyâre doing is for fun and not putting the pokemon in actual, life threatening danger. lucyâs size is still abnormal even for a âwildâ dragonite (despite having a trainer, she retains the behaviour of a wild pokemon since lottie himself isnât the most. social haha), and is almost exclusively seen in pokemon whoâve spent their lives fighting off poachers, or who evolved to break out of captivity. her size is a dead ringer for a dragonite whoâs been through some shit, so sheâd probably be quite the sad sight at first glance. sheâs happy with lottie, though, and has no objections helping him bust up anyone abusing pokemon. his two other dragonair are similar sizes bc he consistently looks Tiny standing on their heads, but only one of them evolved in his care
with that in mind imagine kamina meeting her bc lottie found his way into a team rocket base and she caves in the ceiling to scoop him up. as in when the smoke clears it looks like she just ate him pterosaur style. the horror. the awe. she doesnât fuck around with the safety of her trainer and sometimes that means teeth jail, much to the dismay of basically Everyone Ever. it only takes one blow from one of his dragonairs to decimate like a fourth of an entire city, so tearing through a couple layers of metal and concrete is easy when you compare it to that
one last âfunâ fact about her â she was the first pokemon on lottieâs team, but she wasnât his starter :]
which adds a really interesting difference between between the two universes asides from lottie not knowing kamina etc, which is that he met silver at like. 16-18 instead of as a Full Adult. silver aint his son, thatâs his little brother! and silver has an older sister so thatâs a two-for-one deal lol
and heâd be RIGHT if u look very closely u can see that her mouth isnât fully closed and he could absolutely Not Be There if he so chose. sheâs holding him Very Carefully tho so thereâs really no need haha
teeth jail is very necessary sometimes haha compared to her heâs like a chihuahua and sometimes you just need to pick your tiny human up before it picks a fight. she knows he can hold his own, but she likes bruno and lorelei and would prefer it if her trainer didnât antagonize his friends lmao
YEEE iin Geoverse Silver and Lance meet as full adults with Lance being just a couple years older than him. Which comes as a shock to Silver bc he thinks Lance has gotta be like 30. Work and stress has ages that man đ (He very much became Champion as a teen. And hed already experienced horrors before that and then the horrors did not stop and got worse)
He does get Bro Kamina but has no idea because as an only child that grew up isolated he has no idea all of Kaminas sibling-isms Arent him trying to antagonize him.
lmfao she 1000% enables him and only says hey what if we didnât if whatever lottieâs up to is self destructive. she was fully onboard with the goal of ending humanity until she realized that that might mean losing lottie, at which point she voted in favour of going after lugia to figure out what it saw in the majority of humans. sheâd probably think itâs funny to see lottie try and scrap with kamina and only interfere after talking to Tiny haha
âŚor if someone else from the team got involved and turned it into a full on pokemon battle. lucyâs the protector of the group, and she takes that role seriously. lottie will heal them if anything happens, which makes the others a little reckless at times. lottie can try and talk them into being more careful and they do listen, but itâs up to lucy to make sure they keep looking after themselves
Youre gonna have to ask Blake but I Think Silver is doing his own thing at the time, Also to do with busting up Team Rocket because the semi-gameverse event of 'Gold tries to sneak into Team Rockets plans with a few others disguised as grunts only for Silver to come in and blow their cover' happens
Except he just rips the cap off of Golds head. I hadn't played HGSS yet and Blake had to explain to me'i actually toned him down for the fic. In the game he takes off your entire uniform' HDHXHDHSH
(and here's the fic in question!)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
God a pokemkn battle between Kamina and Lottie would be so interesting. Battling is absolutely a way with which Kamina checks on people he knows, and inspects people he Doesnt know. How one treats their pokemon during battle is Everything
But i feel like Lottie would be Vicious when battling, esp considering the pokespe setting. Compared to Kamina who is taking it easy because thats the way His setting is, and hes just trying to have a normal battle
