Today is ShinSato day which means I’m required by law to draw one of their babies. Since I’ve drawn adult designs for Em and the twins, it means it’s finally Morgan’s turn for a glow-up timeskip design!!!
As an adult, Morgan is a on the committee and a judge for the Sinnoh Grand Festival, and for the rest of the season he travels as a Contest Scout, encouraging young and rookie coordinators to follow their dreams. While he’s gentle and supportive to youngsters, when judging the Grand Festival he’s absolutely ruthless and has quite the reputation for his scathing critiques. All coordinators who make it to the GF live in fear of being verbally eviscerated by him, but it makes the times he does give praise all the more precious to those who earn it.
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I uploaded this on DeviantArt on December 20, 2009. This is the oldest coma fanart I can find of mine on the internet. But even by my standards today, nearly 7 years later, I'm still pretty proud of it.
haha throwback much? does anyone still follow my (extremely inactive) DA? :P
Why did I decide that my first public piece had to be this polished? Why did I spend weeks trying to finish this in the midst of one of my most stressful years of high school?
I wasn't really a known member in the fandom at this stage. I barely even posted on the forums, but there was something that drew me to this ship that I couldn't ignore. I made amvs before fanart and started making a name for myself on youtube. It was still the "warning: yaoi! don't like don't watch!" era. God, I'm old.
I thought about recreating this for Coma day but...I don't think I could do so in a way that satisfied me in that short amount of time. Like I said, I'm still impressed with how much effort was put into this piece even if it's not perfect. I don't think I've used that coloring technique in years because, while it looks nice, it' so time-consuming.
But this ship inspired me to spend that effort. It inspired me to try new things like drawing buildings or detailed backgrounds. It made me draw four pieces in a week, when I hadn't drawn consistently in months (I'm only upset that I ran out of energy for the last leg of coma week). It helped me meet so many amazing people. It was my first big step into the pokemon fandom, and the most lasting one.
The way I ship it has changed. The way I view the characters have changed. The way I related it to my own relationships have changed. The ship evolves with me but I'll always remember it as a journey of two boys reconciling differences, inspiring each other, growing up, and one day reuniting.
I am so happy to be a part of this fandom and how much it's grown and changed over the years. And I hope that I can continue to support it for years to come.
Man call me DP nostalgic (I honestly am given it was the best series to me), but it’s been flve long years since Paul left us and no rivalry dynamic Ash has had since then, be it Trip, Bianca, Tierno, Stephan, or Shouta, none of them has even came close to the level of depth, character exploration, development (from both sides) and focus. That isn’t to say all the aforementioned rivalries are bad, just that Paul and Ash set this bar that nothing else has been able to achieve (im kinda jumping the gun with Shouta but I think it’s safe to say it wont surpass Paul/Ash).
Ash learning humility and getting off his high horse when it comes to training methods, learning that while his way is effective, it’s not the only way to train Pokemon and learns to respect other people’s methods of training. (My favorite part was when Paul called Ash out on his hypocrisy in using Buizel at the Wallace Cup to get stronger when Paul was chastised by him for doing the same thing during the Tag Battle Tournament). He learns to respect Paul’s way of training and battling even if he’d never personally do it himself.
Paul also being humbled, seeing his way of raising Pokemon as totally effective and Ash’s way totally worthless and a waste of time. It wasn’t until he caught and then gave away Chimchar when he finally saw the benefits of raising a Pokemon with love and positive reinforcement, finally coming to see Ash as a worthy rival and after a whole saga of talking down to him finally saw him as his equal. Even though, again, he wouldn’t change his own style completley.
The moral grey-ness is what made the rivalry so real to me. Like?? There was no right or wrong answer to how they raised Pokemon, just opinions, experience, and personal viewpoints. It would’ve been really easy to make Paul out to be the villain and Ash being the shinning example on how to raise Pokemon and make him always have the moral high ground but the portrayed both fairly. Ash loved his Pokemon and always did but his training methods did have faults he had to overcome when it frequently didn’t get the same results Paul did (Roark’s Gym being a good example of that). Paul was harsh and didn’t bond with his Pokemon emotionally but he was a incredibly effective battler, but he still had faults that were showing through his encounters with Cynthia, Brandon and how his inability to awaken Chimchar’s true power no matter how hard he tried (and yet Ash was able to do it and that annoyed him, because he didn’t think Ash’s method was worth anything).
It was just so good because they grew as trainers, but also people, no rivalry has ever been that immaculately crafted to me and it’s frequently the example I use to show how great this show’s writing can be
