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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"What do you think? This is a bunch of people from all over who've been putting up resistance. They heard rumors about a couple of morons fighting in a stolen ganman. And they gathered together to join the fight."
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seriously there is so much geoverse lore i need to get out of my head into a word document that it's so hard to pick a place to start
posthumans and hybrids are actually a big one bc the primer just glosses over the most important stuff and not like, the fact that posthumans are lowkey a metaphor for disability and the way disabled people are treated in real life
I see a lot of your trainer (?) hyrid stuff but I can’t find where it originated. What do you mean by hybrids?
Where the au originated was p much thru @riftclaw allowing me to throw Gurren Lagann characters in xyr Geoverse Pokemon au, which has existed for like two decades now!
So the hybrid stuff specifically isn't mine, but riftclaws'!
In Geoverse, Pokemon are more of a new phenomena (so none of the gameverse ancient pokemon stuff and legends apply here) brought on by pokerus which is an actual dangerous (to humans) virus here (and is entirely Arceus' fault)
You can read about it organized as an in-universe pamphlet here (the site has other things like a timeline, if you fancy checking stuff like that out)
Basically the virus ends up changing non-pokemon cells into pokemon ones (because Arceus is interested in populating the world with Pokemon) So Everything, plants, animals- everything ended up mutating into pokemon, or things we see in the pokemon games like the various berries. And this included humans. So the generations before the ones people like Kamina and Clair and Lance and Gold were born have to deal with repeated plagues of this virus.
It causes people to mutate- to what degree depends on when it's caught and treated (and in some cases they hadn't even gotten to Have a treatment yet) so you have people that end up fully pokemon looking, or partly, or end up with some mutated traits (like what I'm debating on doing with Viral where he'll not only keep his canon fangs and cat eyes, but his big clawhands too), or even fewer still (like Silver who ends up with fangs and heightened senses iirc)
These are known as post-humans, since after the virus they're not quite pokemon but not quite human either. Theyre stuck somewhere inbetween (i guess in a way you could compare them to the mutants that came from humans in TMNT if you wanted something to compare to)
The kids they have end up being hybrids regardless of how far along their mutation was. They look human, for the most part. Slit pupils, fangs, claws, the odd hair color here and there. But they don't have mutations like their parents. They have heightened senses in some cases, and in others they may end up psychic. Unlike their parents, they cant catch or carry the virus. And just as well, unlike their parents they can understand what pokemon are saying, depending on the type. So dragon hybrids like Kamina can understand dragon type pokemon and speak back to them, but they wouldn't be able to understand grass types, bird pokemon that aren't part dragon, etc
It's what adds to Kaminas loneliness in Hisui. Not only are there very few dragon pokemon he could speak with, but there are no hybrids either. To say nothing of how the people in Jubilife fear pokemon in general.
Hope this answered things! I know it got wordy but it comes with a lot of backstory
there's a lot of stuff about posthumans, dxz and hybrids that isn't actually on the website yet, the sheer amount of info i need to write down i s2g
dxz-induced mutation is, essentially, a disfiguring disability for any human or animal who contracts it. but the one thing the virus does not to is stop the organisms it infects from reproducing--this is how all existing pokemon species came to be. (there is a timeline. i am normal about worldbuilding come closer--)
posthumans themselves at best can look a little bit like a furry version of a pokemon--this is exceedingly rare. they never look full pokemon; most of them look like a human with random disfiguring mutations tied to the strain they were infected with, varying in severity. i haven't drawn many of them, because my skills in drawing less cutesy stuff are quite poor, but there are a couple with solid designs so i'll share
rough headshot doodles of glaive (geo!lance's father), hal (geo!clair's father), both druddigon posthumans, and yuri (geo!sabrina's dad) who is a kadabra posthuman
4-5 yr old lance w glaive. glaive is like seven feet tall but his mutations cause him to hunch down a lot (this is why geo!lance is 6'3", iirc canon lance is shorter)
also a more detailed drawing of yuri that i did for the primer info. in geo yuri is actually the origin of the one pokedex entry about a boy suddenly waking up a kadabra one day
+ hybrids are the human children of post humans, who have had the extra pokemon genes blended properly into their dna. they're actually an entirely unintentional side effect of the infection! when pestilence (geo's arceus) finds out about hybrids, it is fascinated. there's also something about the way hybrid dna is blended that just causes dxz to shut itself off and die immediately in their bodies, so they can never be carriers, which ties into a whole bunch of other little lore things. people like geo!lance and kamina do not have to fear many of the same things other humans do have to fear in the universe
geez, someone really needs to tell poor crimson dragon kamina that this isn’t actually his lance, because is sure isn’t going to be pokespe lance 😭 (that would be giving up an advantage and he would prooooobably want to hold onto that)
REAL 😭
The sad part is that that knowledge wouldn't even take away pokespe Lances advantage. Kamina would never want to hurt him, his Lance or not
He'd stop wanting to try and find a way to convince him to come with, but he'd still be so careful. Stealing away glances, wondering if his own Lance would look similar now, but awkwardly trying to work with the fact that this us Not him at all but a stranger instead
you know i'm just remembering that we've never talked about it beyond what kamina knows but can you imagine how he'd feel knowing who was ultimately responsible for fuego's death in mainverse
not even technically tbh geo!lance stole that hard drive with the full knowledge that if he seriously threatened to go public about the abuse fuego would off himself. we have talked about geo!lance's tendency to go absolutely nuclear when he's extra furious
fuego's official cause of death was a stroke but there were a lot of balls dropped bc almia had very little in the way of infrastructure at the time. no other reason a chain smoker who's barely 50 would suddenly drop dead, probably! by the time gold got invested enough to have someone dig the guy up to make sure he didn't fake his death though the cause of death would've been indeterminable.
geez, someone really needs to tell poor crimson dragon kamina that this isn’t actually his lance, because is sure isn’t going to be pokespe lance 😭 (that would be giving up an advantage and he would prooooobably want to hold onto that)
REAL 😭
The sad part is that that knowledge wouldn't even take away pokespe Lances advantage. Kamina would never want to hurt him, his Lance or not
He'd stop wanting to try and find a way to convince him to come with, but he'd still be so careful. Stealing away glances, wondering if his own Lance would look similar now, but awkwardly trying to work with the fact that this us Not him at all but a stranger instead
you know i'm just remembering that we've never talked about it beyond what kamina knows but can you imagine how he'd feel knowing who was ultimately responsible for fuego's death in mainverse
I see a lot of your trainer (?) hyrid stuff but I can’t find where it originated. What do you mean by hybrids?
Where the au originated was p much thru @riftclaw allowing me to throw Gurren Lagann characters in xyr Geoverse Pokemon au, which has existed for like two decades now!
So the hybrid stuff specifically isn't mine, but riftclaws'!
In Geoverse, Pokemon are more of a new phenomena (so none of the gameverse ancient pokemon stuff and legends apply here) brought on by pokerus which is an actual dangerous (to humans) virus here (and is entirely Arceus' fault)
You can read about it organized as an in-universe pamphlet here (the site has other things like a timeline, if you fancy checking stuff like that out)
Basically the virus ends up changing non-pokemon cells into pokemon ones (because Arceus is interested in populating the world with Pokemon) So Everything, plants, animals- everything ended up mutating into pokemon, or things we see in the pokemon games like the various berries. And this included humans. So the generations before the ones people like Kamina and Clair and Lance and Gold were born have to deal with repeated plagues of this virus.
It causes people to mutate- to what degree depends on when it's caught and treated (and in some cases they hadn't even gotten to Have a treatment yet) so you have people that end up fully pokemon looking, or partly, or end up with some mutated traits (like what I'm debating on doing with Viral where he'll not only keep his canon fangs and cat eyes, but his big clawhands too), or even fewer still (like Silver who ends up with fangs and heightened senses iirc)
These are known as post-humans, since after the virus they're not quite pokemon but not quite human either. Theyre stuck somewhere inbetween (i guess in a way you could compare them to the mutants that came from humans in TMNT if you wanted something to compare to)
The kids they have end up being hybrids regardless of how far along their mutation was. They look human, for the most part. Slit pupils, fangs, claws, the odd hair color here and there. But they don't have mutations like their parents. They have heightened senses in some cases, and in others they may end up psychic. Unlike their parents, they cant catch or carry the virus. And just as well, unlike their parents they can understand what pokemon are saying, depending on the type. So dragon hybrids like Kamina can understand dragon type pokemon and speak back to them, but they wouldn't be able to understand grass types, bird pokemon that aren't part dragon, etc
It's what adds to Kaminas loneliness in Hisui. Not only are there very few dragon pokemon he could speak with, but there are no hybrids either. To say nothing of how the people in Jubilife fear pokemon in general.
Hope this answered things! I know it got wordy but it comes with a lot of backstory
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Violent and full of wrath towards Team Rocket or anyone like them that might pop up or cross his path
And then he goes to his pokemon (or any pokemon they rescue) or to Gold (oc) and he's so gentle. Both in motions and in voice. For a bit after he meets Gold he's even a bit quiet during their meetings, as if trying to remember what it's like to have a conversational tone with someone that isn't a dragon. It's easier not to worry about that sort of thing when he's sure he's meeting someone merely in passing, and maybe never again. But Gold sticks around and Kamina finds himself wanting to stick around for once too
Someone looking like his brother would just have him be equally gentle, even when he knows theyre a doppelganger and not who he's looking for. Hell, the whole multiverse thing would even have him go 'well he's still a version of my brother, isn't he?' and would just lead him to endure any attempts at button pressing
this clip makes me so emotional. i feel like this sometimes, at night especially. That the whole wide world may swallow me whole. That i’m wide-eyed in the face of god. that I’m not a victim of smallness but rather its loving disciple.
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i DON'T need them to kiss i need them to come to the sobering realisation that their souls are merged and no part of them is extricable from the other anymore
