#aether foundation

"Evidence that Pokémon once familiar to us have been spotted in the various dimensions linked together by Ultra Space, in the same way that Ultra Beasts have been spotted in our own dimension. Upon falling through an Ultra Wormhole, these Pokemon become bathed in a strange energy that seems to facilitate rapid changes and adaptations needed to survive in their new environments, among other speculated effects. We have dubbed them "dimensional forms," though internally we use the code name "ultra variant," or "UV" for short."

-Aether Report excerpt

It seems that when exposed to the bizarre lands of Ultra Space, Eevee's evolutions take on new forms. I wonder what other strange forms we have yet to see! More info coming soon!

*More detailed lore later, but as a brief explanation on each one's inspirations:

Villains edition : )

Who is willing to take on the hell that would be 9 or 10....

(not me fbdjd put me in 2)

Non villains edition here!

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SILVALLY!! The Synthetic Pokemon! I love Silvally so so so so so so much. It’s my all time favorite please I need more people to make content of this thing.

Lab experiments my beloved <3

Just Silvally under the cut.

Saw this meme and decided to make a couple changes.

Honestly, I feel like the only two that are actually evil are Giovanni and Ghetsis. Gio at least has a code of honor tho, while Ghetsis is just an irredeemable asshole thru and thru.

Cyrus got screwed up by his parents holding him to such an impossibly high standard, he broke trying to live up to how they wanted him to be. Lysandre was a philanthropist who took on too much and snapped when he realized he couldn't really make a dent in solving the world's issues, and, in the anime at least, had people abuse his generosity and keep demanding more and more of him. (Also, part of me wonders if him confessing his plans to literally everyone he interacts with is some kind of cry for help, because he even does this with the champion.) Lusamine was brainwashed in SM, but even without that in Ultra, she's still freezing Pokemon and summoning UBs to Alola. (She's just mildly less nasty to her kids.) But you can at least pinpoint where things went wrong for Lusamine and that's when Mohn got sucked into a Wormhole right before her eyes. Before that, Lillie had said she was a good mom who had once played with her out in the rain. Volo is implied to have something traumatic in his past that drives him, tho we don't really know what it was like the others. Masters implies he was used and tossed aside by someone, but hasn't really gone into detail yet.

(Their actions are evil, and I'm not justifying or attempting to minimize them, I'm just saying that we can see where things went wrong for them and how they fell. We don't really get that with games Giovanni or Ghetsis.)

Archie, Maxie, and Rose felt they were trying to help. Rose wanted his region to prosper. Maxie was trying to make more space for people, and while I feel Archie's plan was more dangerous since he'd displace millions of people and land-dwelling Pokemon, he was generally trying to help Pokemon and turn things back to nature.