bro I am just sitting here

so the idea of an animal/predator that follows you slowly until you have no choice but to risk sleeping or die from exhaustion is basically the eridian equivalent of a campfire story

Latest commission because apparently yall really liked transformer Ingo (there needs to be a transformer Emmet, i swear)

The goal was to make him look really huge! I even rewatched The Iron Giant for inspiration for this. still such a good movie omg!

Progress below!

ooughgh...

how old was he, when it all happened

ooughgh...

how old was he, when it all happened

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I started drawing this in call and my brain decided to finish it semi-fully lol

But Pokopia fully does not do that. The world is lonely without humans and lesser for humanity's absence. So much of the game is about how Pokemon miss humans and are struggling to make sense of a world without us, how the ecosystem is just as hurt by our absence as any other species, and how the things we left behind, even in ruins and burned shells, are often beautiful and strange and helpful to the Pokemon who find them.

Pokemon have always been this allegory for the natural world- back to the original idea of the games inspired by children who caught bugs and kept ant farms- and thus the relationship between Pokemon and humans becomes this allegory for the relationship between nature and humans. And Pokopia looks you dead in the eye and says "the world would be poorer without humans, and if we all vanished tomorrow the echoes of who we are and the things we did would still ring out for eons uncountable. We would be missed and mourned and searched for and the wound of our absence would be deeply felt on this earth for the rest of its turning. The actions of a few greedy short sighted humans will never change that."

- he's holding Zooble in a way so that their parts don't fall out

- he's not squeezing Gangle so that her fragile ribbons don't get tangled

- he's not putting too much pressure on Ragatha so that she doesn't get ripped apart

- he's only holding Pomni and Jax firmly because their bodies are solid and rubbery

And this scene is right after the torture too. You would think he would be more violent, but no. He wanted to hurt them, not break them.

Caine wanted them to listen. And because they never did, he made them feel what he felt when they poked at his biggest fears and insecurities.

What if AZ was racing against a clock he couldn’t see? What if instead of being immortal, he and Floette shared the collective energy that would’ve driven the lifespans of every Pokemon used when Floette was revived?

Some of them are long lived, but others aren’t. Because of the longer lived ones, he simply concluded that he was immortal and assumed he had forever. To search and to suffer.

What if, had anything gone different, had he evaded Lysandre longer, had he missed the parade..

He wouldn’t have ever reunited with Floette again? What if he hadn’t found her until 3,005 years instead, only to die with her in his withered arms?

His final breath a sob as he finally finds his beloved friend, only to close his eyes for the very last time?